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; to animate.
  • verb chemistry, obsolete, transitive To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from oxide or solution; to reduce.

Etymologies

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Latin vivificatus, past participle vivificare. See vivify.

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