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vivific, a.|vɪˈvɪfɪk|
Also 6 viuifike, 7–8 vivifick.
[ad. L. (post-classical) vīvific-us, f. vīv-us living: see -fic. So OF. and F. vivifique, Sp., Pg., It. vivifico.]
Life-giving, enlivening, vivifying.
1551Bp. Gardiner On Sacram. i. 13 b, Wherby they might vnderstand him verie God, whose fleshe..geuen spiritually to be eaten of vs..[is] viuifike and geueth life. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 324 Chrysostome cals it..a vivifick Energie. 1694Phil. Trans. XVIII. 39 A Vivifick Spirit or Aura, generated out of the Blood by the Brain. 1709T. Robinson Vind. Mosaick Syst. 19 Light was the Active and Vivifick Principle of Generation. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 118 The zoogonic, or vivific goddess, pours through these into the universe, an inexplicable and efficacious power. 1809Southey in Q. Rev. I. 194 There is, however, in all religious communities a vivacious and vivific principle not to be found in the same degree in political bodies. 1852A. Ballou Spirit Manifest. i. 15 Matter inert and passive, spirit vivific and active. 1877W. R. Cooper Egypt. Obelisks v. (1878) 25 [The name] ‘The Eternal Generator’ contains an allusion to the vivific power of Ra, as the creator of life. |
