a. Also 6 viuifike, 7–8 vivifick. [ad. L. (post-classical) vīvific-us, f. vīv-us living: see -FIC. So OF. and F. vivifique, Sp., Pg., It. vivifico.] Life-giving, enlivening, vivifying.
1551. Bp. Gardiner, On Sacram., I. 13 b. Wherby they might vnderstand him verie God, whose fleshe … geuen spiritually to be eaten of vs … [is] viuifike and geueth life.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. III. iii. 324. Chrysostome cals it … a vivifick Energie.
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 39. A Vivifick Spirit or Aura, generated out of the Blood by the Brain.
1709. T. Robinson, Vind. Mosaick Syst., 19. Light was the Active and Vivifick Principle of Generation.
1788. T. Taylor, Proclus, I. 118. The zoogonic, or vivific goddess, pours through these into the universe, an inexplicable and efficacious power.
1809. Southey, in Q. Rev., I. 194. There is, however, in all religious communities a vivacious and vivific principle not to be found in the same degree in political bodies.
1852. A. Ballou, Spirit Manifestations, i. 11. Matter inert and passive, Spirit vivific and active.
1877. W. R. Cooper, Egypt. Obelisks, v. (1878), 25. [The name] ‘The Eternal Generator’ contains an allusion to the vivific power of Ra, as the creator of life.
