vivificate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vīvificātus, past participle vīvificō. See vivify.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editvivificate (third-person singular simple present vivificates, present participle vivificating, simple past and past participle vivificated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To give life to; to animate.
- 1653, Henry More, Conjectura Cabbalistica:
- God vivificates and actuates the whole world.
- (chemistry, obsolete, transitive) To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from oxide or solution; to reduce.
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editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vivificate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editvivificate
- inflection of vivificare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editvivificate f pl
Latin
editVerb
editvīvificāte
Spanish
editVerb
editvivificate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of vivificar combined with te
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