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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VIV'IFY, v.t. [L. vivfico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]
To endue with life; to animate; to make to be living.
Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
2: make more striking or animated; "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Middle English vivifien to nourish, from Anglo-French vivifier to give life to, from Late Latin vivificare, from Latin vivificus enlivening, from vivus alive — more at quick Date: 14th century 1. to endow with life or renewed life ; animate <rains that vivify the barren hills> 2. to impart vitality or vividness to <concentrating this union of quality and meaning in a way which vivifies both — John Dewey> Synonyms: see quicken • vivification noun • vivifier noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) enliven, animate, make lively or living. Derivatives: vivification n. Etymology: F vivifier f. LL vivificare f. L vivus living f. vivere live

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vivify Viv"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vivified; p. pr. & vb. n. Vivifying.] [F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See Vivid, -fy; cf. Vivificate.] To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. --Bacon.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Animate, vitalize, awake, arouse, quicken, make alive, give life to, endue with life.

Moby Thesaurus

animate, brace, brace up, breathe life into, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to life, brisk, brisken, buck up, call into being, call into existence, cheer, chirk up, conceive, endow with life, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, give birth, give life to, inspirit, invigorate, perk up, pick up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, renew, revive, revivify, set up, stimulate, vitalize