单词 | vivifying |
释义 | vivifyingadj. 1. a. That vivifies or animates physically; life-giving, quickening. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). > as lemmasˈvivifying ˈvivifying n. ΘΚΠ 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. < adj.1635 as lemmas |
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