Vivification

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; the act of giving life; revival.
  • noun. In physiology, the transformation of proteid matter into living tissue, occurring as the final stage of assimilation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.
  • noun. One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
  • noun. The act or process of vivificating.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The giving of life; vitalization; animation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
  • noun. quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
  • Word Usage
    "Indeed, when we have gone as far as we please in denouncing shams, ridiculing men in buff-jerkins, and the whole Wardour Street business of gimcrack and Brummagem antiquities, it still remains true that Scott's great service was what we may call the vivification of history."
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