v. Also 5–7 viuificat(e, 6 vivifycate. [ad. L. vīvificāt-, ppl. stem of vīvificāre (Tertullian, etc.; hence It. vivificare, Sp. and Pg. vivificar), f. vīv-us alive: cf. VIVIFIC a. and -ATE3.]
1. trans. To give life to, to animate, to enliven or quicken; = VIVIFY v. 1.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 189. In the pleyne þer of is a pitte where thei ȝafe to viuificate the myndes of philosophres.
a. 1500. Colkelbie Sow, 887. Lyk [fr]o sede sawin in erd mortificat Flouris mony fructis viuificat.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, lxxxvi. 35. The herte dothe vivifycate all other members.
1565. Harding, Confut., II. xiv. 109 b. God the Wordes owne body, that hath power to viuificate and quicken all thinges.
1609. Bible (Douay), Ezek. xiii. 18. When they caught the soules of my people, they did vivificate their soules.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal., 31. Even as God vivificates and actuates the whole world.
1675. O. Walker, etc., Paraphr. St. Paul, 161. The sensitive … soul or faculty continues meanwhile in the body … vivificating it.
1819. H. Busk, Vestriad, I. 217. Whose blood vivificates thy veins.
† 2. intr. To become endued with life. Obs.–1
1660. Stanley, Hist. Philos., IX. (1687), 551/2. This beam penetrates to the Abyss, and thereby all things vivificate.
Hence Vivificating ppl. a.
a. 1688. Cudworth, Immut. Mor., III. ii. § 3 (1731), 89. The Compound … of the Body and a certain Vivificating Light, imparted from the Soul to it.
