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Vivificate


VIV'IFICATE, verb transitive [Latin vivifico, vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]

1. to give life to; to animate. [See Vivify.]

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 figor.