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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : viv-uh-fahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɪv əˌfaɪ |
Definition of vivify
Origin :- 1590s, from Old French vivifier (12c.), from Late Latin vivificare "make alive, restore to life," from vivificus "enlivening," from Latin vivus "alive" (see vivid) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Vivificate in same sense is recorded from early 15c.
- verb enliven
- He rubbed his head to relieve the pressure on his brain, and to vivify his ideas.
- Extract from : « Freaks of Fortune » by Oliver Optic
- The abstract which we have made does not vivify us sufficiently.
- Extract from : « Laurus Nobilis » by Vernon Lee
- Even your overflow of life would not suffice long to vivify me.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Julian Hawthorne
- Yet what distant corner of the system do they not cheer and vivify?
- Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Let us cheer them with our bounty, and vivify them with words of joy and hope.
- Extract from : « Letters of Peregrine Pickle » by George P. Upton
- They seemed to vivify, as her discontent and restlessness grew.
- Extract from : « The Money Master, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- The teachers' meeting is not so much to get facts as to vivify and arrange them.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- The picture is complete in itself; I have only to vivify its colors during the performance.
- Extract from : « How to Sing » by Lilli Lehmann
- It signifies to vivify, sustain, or support one's self in being or existence.
- Extract from : « Lectures on Language » by William S. Balch
- So, also, it ought to vivify pantomime and accompany the stage pictures.
- Extract from : « How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. » by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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