vivificate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VIV'IFICATE, verb transitive [Latin vivifico, vivus, alive, and facio, to make.] 1. to give life to; to animate. [See Vivify.] 2. In chimistry, to recover from such a change of form as seems to destroy the essential qualities; or to give to natural bodies new luster, force and figor.
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