Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUICK'EN, v.t. [quik'n; Sax. cwiccian; 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.