convivify

English

Etymology

con- +‎ vivify

Verb

convivify (third-person singular simple present convivifies, present participle convivifying, simple past and past participle convivified)

1. (Christianity) To gain (eternal) life as a result of joining one's life to
   • 1987, Richard Eugene Sullivan, Thomas F. X. Noble, John J. Contreni, Religion, culture, and society in the early Middle Ages, page 230:

     The believer was purified and, united with Christ, convivified with Him, even as, in the Eucharist, the body of the church, was concorporated, unified, sanctified, and offered in sacrifice with Christ its head.

   • 2005, Frederick A. Homann, Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels:

     They knew that spiritual consolations were given them because they were convivified with Christ, and raised with Him [Eph 2].

   • 2006, Ceslaus Spicq, Agape in the New Testament, Volume 2:

     He “convivified” men with Christ, by love.