[f. QUICKEN v. + -ER1.] One who or that which quickens, in various senses of the verb.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 254. Welcum quyknar of florist flowris schene.

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1581.  Mulcaster, Positions, vi. (1887), 40. The soule,… the quickner of the body.

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1653.  H. More, Antid. Ath., II. xii. § 12. Notable whetters and quickners of the spirit of life.

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1767.  S. Paterson, Another Trav., I. 425. Re-edifiers of fallen temples, and quickeners of dead laurels.

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1820.  W. Irving, Sketch Bk. (1859), 137. These tokens of regard, and quickeners of kind feelings.

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1879.  M. Conway, Demonol., I. I. ii. 9. The one [Baal] represents the Sun in his glory as quickener of Nature and painter of its beauty.

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