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Vivify

verb

(past & past part. vivified; pres. part. vivifying)

Give new life or energy to. Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify. "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"

Make more striking or animated.

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"Vivify" Quotes from Famous Books

... suggestive of Mr. Tupman. Yet his miscellaneous writing has one great merit (besides its gentle playfulness and its untiring variety) which might procure pardon for worse faults. With no one perhaps are those literary memories which transform and vivify life so constantly present as with Leigh Hunt. Although the world was a perfectly real thing to him, and not by any means seen only through the windows of a library, he took everywhere with him the remembrances of what he had read, and they helped him to clothe and colour what he saw and what ...

— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury

... colony, could not have been more laudable; but, as was afterwards seen, the instrument employed was not adequate to the object in view. At the same time that the company were charged to promote, and, by means of their funds, to vivify the agriculture and industry of these provinces, the necessary powers and facilities to enable them to reap the fruits of their sacrifices were withheld. The protection granted to this establishment, did not go beyond a general recommendation ...

— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... here there is a strange verification of the old Ptolemaic belief with regard to the path of a sun, though in this instance there are three suns circling round a dark globe which they illumine and vivify. ...

— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard

... Ann Veronica to a familiar affection with Ramage, was certainly warming Ramage to a constantly deepening interest in Ann Veronica. He felt that he was getting on with her very slowly indeed, but he did not see how he could get on faster. He had, he felt, to create certain ideas and vivify certain curiosities and feelings in her. Until that was done a certain experience of life assured him that a girl is a locked coldness against a man's approach. She had all the fascination of being absolutely ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

... a song," cried Yoomy, "it evermore causes it so to sparkle, vivify, and irradiate, that no son of man can repeat it without tingling himself. This very song of mine may prove what ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

... through this. Dante's poem is not an isolated work; it is the noblest result of a condition which had given birth to hundreds of compositions, and Alighieri had little more to do than to co-ordinate the works of his predecessors and vivify them with the ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

Words linked to "Vivify" : come to, modify, energise, change, brace, energize, arouse, perk up, stimulate, vivification, alter, resuscitate