Definition for VIV'IF-IC-ATE

VIV'IF-IC-ATE, v.t. [L. vivifico; virus, alive, and facie, 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.

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