Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give life to; animate; vivify.
- In old chemistry, to restore or reduce to the natural state or to the metallic state, as a substance from a solution or a metal from an oxid; revive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
- transitive verb (Chem.), obsolete To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To give
life to; toanimate . - verb chemistry, obsolete, transitive To bring back a
metal to themetallic form, as fromoxide orsolution ; toreduce .
Etymologies
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Latin vivificatus, past participle vivificare. See vivify.
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