vivificate

English

Etymology

From Latin vīvificātus, past participle vīvificō. See vivify.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈvɪfɪkeɪt/

Verb

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.

Related terms

• revivificate
• vivify

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology 1

Verb

vivificate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

vivificate f pl

1. feminine plural of vivificato

Latin

Verb

vīvificāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vīvificō

Spanish

Verb

vivificate

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