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QUICKEN.
MARKHAM Caval. i. (1617) 50 Let their Mare-? after th*ey
are quickncd, be moderately travelled or wrought.
2. To give, add, or restore vigour to (a person or
to stimulate, stir up, rouse, excite, inspire.
thing) ;
a. a person.
1523 LD. HKRNKKS Froiss. I. Ixxxix. m Loue quickened
hym day and nijht. 1515 Ibid. II. ex. [cvi.] I am
31^,
quickened so to do. 1542 N. UDALL in Lett. Lit. Men
(Camden) 7 A contynuall spurre . . to pricke and to quicken
i. n. hi.
me to goodnes. a 163* T. TAYLOR God's Judgein.
(1642) 413 You .. he now quickened and stirred up to his
love. 1703 PKNN in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 271, 1 hope..
you will be quickened to show yourselves men in that affair.
1856 KANE Arct. Exf>l. I. xxviL 352 We were like men
driven to the wall, quickened, not depressed. 1874 GREKN
Short Hist. viii. 5. 5 19 He rode through England to quicken
the electors to a sense of the crisis.
b. a feeling, faculty, action, course of things, etc.
f Also with w/.
1423 JAS. I Kingis Q. clxxxi, To quikin treuly day by day
my lore. 1450-1530 Myrr. our Ladye 68 Other bokes ther
be that ar made to quyken, & to sturre vp the affeccyons
of the soule. 1579-80 NORTH Plutarch (1595) 236 The first
honour that vallinnt mindes do come vnto, doth
quicken vp
their appetite. 1659 RUSHW. Hist. Coll. I. 538 Sir Dudley
Diggs quickned his motion and spoke roundly, 1723 DE
FOE CW. Jack (1840) 89 This quickened^ my resolution.
1781 COWPER Charity 522 The frequent interjected dash
Quickens a market, and helps off the trash. 1853 MAURICE
Proph. 4- Kings ix. 150 The savage impulses of the soldier
became quickened. 1883 FROUDE Short Stnd. IV, n. iii.
194 Other conventional beliefs, too, were quickened into
startling realities.
C. absol.
1581 MULCASTER Positions xxxix. (1887) 215 To consider
of education and learning, what is good and quickneth.
1637 HEYWOOD Royall King \\. Wks. 1874 VI. 33 The
. . King quickens most where he would most destroy, a 1859
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in ! * 20 Pillar of fire, that
381 It had induced him to quicken his departure. 1855
BAIN Senses