a. Obs. [ad. L. vīvificant-, vīvificans, pres. pple. of vīvificāre: see next.] = VIVIFIC a.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., A 3. The temperature of the ayre, which is viuificant, quickening, and full of life.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 992. Every sense findeth benefit of fire as of a vivificant power and quickening vertue.
1653. H. Cogan, Diod. Sic., 4. The one … having a vivificant and fierce, the other a cold and moist nature.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. conc. Relig., III. viii. 464. That admirable splendor and vivificant virtue which is in the Sun.
