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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

... It has been common to all, from the Chaldean shepherds—"the lonely herdsman stretched on the soft grass through half a summer's day"—the solitary monk—to all whose impressions from without have had time to grow and vivify in the imagination, till they have been received as actual personifications, or supernatural visions, to doubt which ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell

... 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 breath ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... who desires to understand well that which I now saw (and let him retain the image like a firm rock, while I am speaking), fifteen stars which in different regions vivify the heaven with brightness so great that it overcomes all thickness of the air; let him imagine that Wain[2] for which the bosom of our heaven suffices both night and day, so that in the turning of its pole it disappears not; let him imagine ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] • Dante Alighieri

... in a circle of these modern "Unsurprised ones." Their vacant self-possession would put down all the Grattans and Currans and Jeffreys and Sydney Smiths in the world. I defy the most brilliant, the readiest, the most genial of talkers to vivify the mass of inert dulness he will find now at every dinner and in ...

— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General - Originally Published In Blackwood's Magazine - 1864 • Charles Lever

... 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 ...

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

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