a. Obs. [f. VIVIFICATE v. + -IVE. Cf. OF. vivificatif, -ive, Sp., Pg., It. vivificativo.] Life-giving, vivifying.
c. 1550. Rolland, Crt. Venus, II. 852. The sweit smell, and the suaue odour … Sa weill sawrit, and viuificatiue.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, Notes 353. Psyche cannot issue out into any externall vivificative act, unlesse you suppose a body.
1661. Rust, Origen’s Opin., 122. The operations of the Spirit of life, or quickning Spirit, are all vivificative.
1755. T. Amory, Mem. (1766), II. 194, note. By touching them with faith, we may attract the sanctification and vivificative virtue which resideth in them.
