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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quicken .
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Examples
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The face which had been drained of all expression quickened into agonized feeling.
Studies in love and in terror Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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A familiar letter sprang out at him, each word quickened by its glaring garb of type.
The Touchstone 1900
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A familiar letter sprang out at him, each word quickened by its glaring garb of type.
The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1899
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Christ was quickened, that is to say, was active, in His own spirit state, although His body was inert and in reality dead at the time; and that _in_ that disembodied state He went and preached to the disobedient spirits.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897
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Nay, rather, he appreciated it the more, as some writers find literary perception and power of expression quickened at the influence of music itself.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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Christ, says the Bible, was put to death in the flesh; but quickened, that is, brought to life, by the Spirit.
Twenty-Five Village Sermons Charles Kingsley 1847
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Whether or not this is a valid reading (the amnesiac flailing attached to the thickening stage in Clute's narrative grammar of horror seems at odds with the "quickened" state of a liminal hero), it seems entirely appropriate that the end-state of this singularity is a sort of total infusion of consciousness and worldscape, the hero telepathically aware of what everyone in the world is thinking.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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Whether or not this is a valid reading (the amnesiac flailing attached to the thickening stage in Clute's narrative grammar of horror seems at odds with the "quickened" state of a liminal hero), it seems entirely appropriate that the end-state of this singularity is a sort of total infusion of consciousness and worldscape, the hero telepathically aware of what everyone in the world is thinking.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Spirit so "quickened" them that they were able to understand and appreciate one of the most spiritual of all his Epistles.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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Now Gregory XIV had enacted the penalty of excommunication for abortion of a "quickened" child but the present law makes no such distinction, and therefore it must be differently understood.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
jwjarvis commented on the word quickened
In order for a solar system to form, it must be in a very magnetic area, so that the matters can be "Quickened". Meaning, yes, they may have become matter, that ain't magnetic, but the process, the pulling of matter, condensing it, created the mass, therefore determining the weight understandable to a mind. This misperception should be deciphered at least, if it isn't already.
May 30, 2010