† vivificativeadj.
Obsolete.
Life-giving, vivifying.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [adjective]
life-giving1550
vivific1551
vivificative1575
vivificant1576
vital1590
informing1631
vivifical1632
vivifying1635
informative1642
animantative1655
enlivening1664
vivificatinga1688
animative1706
vitalizing1813
blood-giving1840
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 32v The sweit smell, and the suaue odour..Sa weill sawrit, and viuificatiue.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 353 Psyche cannot issue out into any externall vivificative act, unlesse you suppose a body.
1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen 122 The operations of the Spirit of life, or quickning Spirit, are all vivificative.
1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 440 By touching them with faith, we may attract the sanctification and vivificative virtue which resideth in them.
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