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Webster 1913 Edition
Quickener
Quick′en-er
,Noun.
One who, or that which, quickens.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quickener
QUICK'ENER
,Noun.
1.
One who revives, vivifies, or communicates life.2.
That which reinvigorates.3.
That which accelerates motion or increases activity.Definition 2024
quickener
quickener
English
Noun
quickener (plural quickeners)
- One who, or that which, quickens, hastens, or speeds up an object or action.
- That which gives life, animates, or nourishes.
- 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), The Seven against Thebes, page 124 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.
- Where, through the deep, rich soil enwound,
The waters of Dirce flow?
Nourisher she of man and mead,
Quencher of thirst and quickener of seed;
- Where, through the deep, rich soil enwound,
- 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), The Seven against Thebes, page 124 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.
Synonyms
- (that which quickens): catalyst
Related terms
Translations
one who, or that which, quickens
that which gives life, animates, or nourishes