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单词 vivifying
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vivifyingadj.

Etymology: < vivify v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈvivifying.
1.
a. That vivifies or animates physically; life-giving, quickening.
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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
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vi. 374 The second Adam, sleeping in a vivifying death.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 127 That vivifying and incombustible sulphur that is Natures true fire and agent.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 59 The vivifying Juice, with which the Earth is impregnated.
1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 231 In other places..he explodes the doctrine of a vivifying spirit in the air.
1799 Monthly Rev. 30 570 The vivifying action of the atmosphere.
1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (ed. 2) 321 I have repeatedly tried it on all sorts of subjects,..and its vivifying powers have proved extraordinary in every instance.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 246/2 The monads, and the vivifying animalcules of flowering plants.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xii. 275 The vivifying gas cannot penetrate to the centre of the film.
b. Of medicines: Restorative. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [adjective] > restorative
comfortive1377
restaurativea1393
comfortativea1398
resumptivea1398
cordial?a1425
corroborative1583
analeptical1606
corroborant1626
analeptica1629
vivifying1665
roborant1768
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis Pref. Whose Aid was not onely as a Hand to uphold, but a vivifying Medicine to a fainting Body.
1716 A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 19 That all our Members..be provided with a sufficient Quantity of the vivifying Drops, Or Byfield's Sal Volatile.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 12 It may sometimes happen, that..a countryman who cannot read, dies without ever hearing of the vivifying drops.
2. That vivifies spiritually or mentally; imparting interest or energy.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective]
cooling?c1425
comfortablec1440
refreshing1534
rousing1576
vegetant1576
reviving1579
refriscative1582
refrigerating1583
cordial1584
airy1591
freshing1591
animating1595
fertile1597
recreating1600
refective1611
refreshfula1614
comforting1623
refrigerant1626
erecting1654
cordialine1674
refocillating1675
corroboratinga1680
refectory1693
invigorating1694
restoring1697
freshful1734
enlivening1746–7
livelya1754
tonic1756
stimulatory1758
vivifying1768
energizing1786
stimulative1791
refreshening1807
vitalizing1813
stimulating1827
recuperative1843
invigorative1860
innerving1868
breezy1870
tonicizing1890
reparatory1893
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) I. 45 That vivifying ingredient which gives life and vigour to our motives.
1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 31 Without it,..the people cannot long enjoy..the vivifying energy of good Government.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 85 The vivifying influences of the altar, the censer, and the sacrifice.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xiv. 111 The vivifying impulse of patriotic sentiment.
1884 Athenæum 7 June 722/2 Human beings..cannot dispense with some such vivifying element in their religion.
3. vivifying ink n. a liquid which brings out what has been written in sympathetic ink.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > invisible ink > material which shows up
vivifying ink1823
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 42 Soak a double paper in the vivifying ink.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

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ˈvivifying
ˈvivifying n.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [noun]
life-giving1573
animation1597
enliving1602
quickenancea1617
vivification1626
information1630
enlivening1674
vitalization1846
vivifying1860
interanimation1925
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 2 The calf was the symbol..of..His continued vivifying of all which lives.
1884 Earl Grey in Life Mandell Creighton (1904) I. viii. 247 The ripple which sprung from the vivifying of the waters of Embleton spread over a large surface.
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adj.1635
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