Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VIV'IF-IC-ATE
VI-VIF'IC, or VI-VIF'IC-ALVIV-IF-IC-A'TION
VIV'IF-IC-ATE, v.t. [L. vivifico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]
- To give life to; to animate. [See Vivify.] More.
- 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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