requickenv.

1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iii. 31 Sweet Musike requickeneth the heauiest spirites of dumpish Melancholy.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 117 Then straight his doubled spirit Requickned what in flesh was fatigate. View more context for this quotation

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 210 Which Body so raised up and requickned, will tell us the Sum of all you shall require of him.

1760 R. Clarke Second Warning to World 46 This last image is revived and requickened by the incubation of that one archetypal Spirit of God.

1765 C. Smart tr. Psalms David cxix. 123 'Tis thy word, of cordial taste, which nature's weariness and waste Requickens and repairs.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 114 The organs of assimilation..if once requickened are very apt to be unduly excited.

1879 C. Rossetti Seek & Find 216 Our Redeemer bought with a great price His right to re-quicken us.

1904 J. Rhoades Little Flowers St. Francis of Assisi xv. 89 The preaching of the Cross of Christ, Requickened by Saint Francis.

1953 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 97 583/1 The subsequent purchases of Susquehanna lands by Pennsylvania's commissioners did not requicken that confidence.

2002 S. P. Knadler Fugitive Race iii. 69 In this Progressive Era fugitive slave narrative, Hopkins tries to requicken the furor over the earlier passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiii. 594/1 Neither was the spirit of the English (after it began to requicken) idle elsewhere.

1619 E. M. Bolton in tr. Florus Rom. Hist. Pref. sig. B3^v Vnder the gouernment of Traian, their sinewes requicken.

1835 E. S. Wortley Travelling Sketches 46 One seed requickeneth—soon as it is sown.

1878 A. C. Swinburne Inferiæ in Poems & Ballads 2nd Ser. 2 Spring, and the light and sound of things on earth Requickening.

1944 Mod. Lang. Rev. 39 100 His hopes had been shattered by the Restoration, but began to re-quicken as Charles's Declaration of Indulgence made all Protestant hearts to tremble.

2004 D. Marsh Bruce Springsteen 600 The part that's so fragile any reasonable person never stops marveling that it survives, but so strong that it requickens each time someone comes along who's strong enough to pick it up.

1576 A. Golding tr. Lyfe Shatilion sig. Biii^v This other consisted of God the giuer of..the whole frute of the crucified, requickened, and glorified body of Christ, which frute God gaue in the supper.

1850 O. Winslow Inner Life v. 156 What will be some of the effects of a revived, requickened state of the spiritual life?

1923 Times 21 July 13/4 For comfort is not merely compassion or sympathy, it is a gift of power, a requickened capacity to stand up to the challenge of life.

2006 Time Out (Nexis) 15 Feb. 55 You sense a requickened experimentalism and neorealist influence in his interweaving of documentary-style and dramatic footage.

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 226 A renuing and a requickning of that heauenly life.

1737 J. Miller Universal Passion Prol. sig. A1 When gay Titan, with requickning Light, Undraws the sable Curtains of the Night.

1844 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. Feb. 179 This is one meaning of the mystical legend of Osiris being torn in pieces by Typho, of his re-quickening, and of his birth into a new life.

1891 Edinb. Rev. July 212 A requickening form of Christian belief and practice.

a1923 H. Trench Poems (1924) 29 I turn to a requickening voice.

1978 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XV. 438/1 The Requickening Address [of the Iroquois], so named for its symbolic power to restore life as well as for its power to lift up the minds of those depressed by grief.

2003 C. Zilbourg Richard Aldington & H.D. ii. 267 Throughout the rest of her life, she would return to this moment as a turning point, a re-quickening of their relationship.