Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VIV'IF-IC-ATE, v.t. [L. vivifico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]

1. To give life to; to animate. [See Vivify.] More.
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 vigor. – Cyc.