vivificate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin vīvificātus, past participle vīvificō. See vivify.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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vivificate (third-person singular simple present vivificates, present participle vivificating, simple past and past participle vivificated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To give life to; to animate.
    • 1653, Henry More, Conjectura Cabbalistica:
      God vivificates and actuates the whole world.
  2. (chemistry, obsolete, transitive) To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from oxide or solution; to reduce.
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Part 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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vivificate

  1. inflection of vivificare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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vivificate f pl

  1. feminine plural of vivificato

Latin

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Verb

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vīvificāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of vīvificō

Spanish

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Verb

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vivificate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of vivificar combined with te