Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUICK-EN, v.t. quik'n. [Sax. cwicrian; Dan. qvæger.]

1. Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. Rom. iv. Hence flocks and herds, and men and beasts and fowls, With breath are quicken'd, and attract their souls. Dryden.
2. To make alive in a spiritual sense; to communicate a principle of grace to. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Eph. ii.
3. To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.
4. To sharpen; to given keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires. South. Tatler.
5. To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Ps. cxix.