energicadj.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. 437 In breathing of..air out of an open mouth the fiery minims do come forth in troops..mixt in or supported by the said incrassated air, whence they abide energick.

1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation xvi. 124 The most Energick Simples.

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. ii. 7 A juice much more energic than the milk of goat, or wolf, or woman.

1830 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 18 257 Sulphur resists the action of these very energic salts.

1683 tr. G. Pierreville Relig. Cavalier 55 This energick Invective took up near four Pages of the Table-book. [French original not identified.]

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 45 Expressions..not..energick enough [Fr. assez fortes] to express such Thoughts.

1745 Visible Pursuit of Foreign Interest 20 No Translation can be so energic and beautiful as the Original.

1815 H. Cope Suicide ii. 60 No, nor the polish'd, nor energic strain,—Could shew the widow'd fair one's grief and pain.

1740 ‘Sophia’ Woman's Superior Excellence over Man 75 Blest with an energic corpulence of flesh and a happy broadness of visage,..he looks a very bishop for gravity.

1787 A. Young Jrnl. 16 Oct. in Trav. France (1792) i. 65 The energic exertions of ardent minds.

1818 ‘W. Whistlecraft’ & ‘R. Whistlecraft’ Prospectus National Work King Arthur (ed. 2) iii. xli. 21 The strong Frying-pan's energic jangle.

1876 J. Ellis Caesar in Egypt 32 Caesar, astute, energic, press'd the war.

1978 Times 30 June 11/5 He is a knowing Vivaldi conductor, taut and energic in quick movements.

1786 J. Courtenay Poet. Rev. Samuel Johnson 25 A boundless faith that noble mind debas'd, By piercing wit, energick reason grac'd.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Let. 6 Nov. (1966) I. 128 To me hath Heaven with liberal hand assign'd Energic Reason & a shaping Mind.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 294 I am by the law of my nature a reasoner... My mind is always energic—I don't mean, energetic; I require in every thing..a reason why the thing is at all, and why it is there or then rather than elsewhere or at another time.

1859 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 242/2 The energic faculty that we call Will.

1883 G. Massey Nat. Genesis I. 551 It is still the circle of the female who was the Sakti, the power and energic force of the male, the glory of the God, both in India and Egypt.

1907 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 323 Vaiṣṇava Hinduism has a Trinity closely corresponding to ours, viz., the Supreme Deity, His incarnation, and His Śakti, or energic power.

1974 R. E. Valett Self-actualization v. 27 The positive and negative (or opposite) energic forces operating throughout the universe and in all living things.

2013 J. Corbett-Hemeyer Reclaiming our Souls x. 146 The heart chakra, as its name suggests, is the energic center of love and connection.