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Webster 1913 Edition
Vivificate
1.
To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
[R.]
God
vivificates
and actuates the whole world. Dr. H. More.
2.
(Chem.)
To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Vivificate
VIV'IFICATE
,Verb.
T.
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.