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VIVIDITY.
the most Vivid and Lasting Impressions upon us, 1715
Desaguliers Fires Impr. 41 A more vivid Sensation of
Cold. 1835 I. Taylor Spir. Despot, ii. 55 Seasons .. in
which the clergy are exposed to vivid anxieties or endure
actual privations. 1850 Robertson Sernt. Ser. in. viii.
(1857) III When the recollection of his sin is most vivid and
most poignant. 1874 Gkeen Short Hist. viii. § i. 454 The
vivid sense of a Divine Purity close to such men made the
life of common men seem sin.
5. Life-like ; resembling life.
X85J Hawthorne BlithedaU Rom. xi, He carried a slick
with a wooden head, carved in vivid imitation of that of a
serpent.
6. Quasi-(M?i^. Vividly, brightly.
i8t{j Keats Fail Hyperion i. 245 The scenes Still swooning
vivid through my globed brain. 1865 Carlyle Fredk.
Gt. XX. iii. (1872) IX. 44 The Prussian camp-fires, they too
are all burning uncommonly vivid.
Vividity (vivi*diti). [f. prec. + -itt.]
1 1. Living force, vitality. Obs~^
1616 T. Adams SouVs Sickness 28 Corrupt affections,
which like vicious humours gnaw and suck the conscience
dry of all viuiditie.
2. The quality or state of being vivid ; vividness.
X77a W. CuLLEN Lect. Pathol. \\\ J. Thomson Li/e (1832)
1 . 378 A degree of Vividity, of Alacrity, and Levity, or a dis.
position to change .. can only be considered as states of
morbid Irritability, .in the Brain. 1780 Bentham Princ.
Legisl. vi, § 12 {1789) 45 Clearness of discernment, . .vividity
and rapidity of imagination. 1813 T. Busby Lucretius
II. v. Comm. p. xl. Avast mass of illumined matter, in
the general glow and vividity of which the opaque spots are
almost loer of is
a pitte where thei 5afe to viuificate the myndes of philosophres.
a 1500 Colkeliie Sotv 887 Lyk [fr]o sede'sawin in
erd mortificat Flouris mony fructisviuificat. i547BooiiDB
Brrv. Health Ixxxvu 35 The herte dothe vivifycate all other
members. 15*5 Harding Con/ut. 11. xiv. 109 b, God the
Wordes owne body, that hath power to viuificate and
quicken all thinges. 1609 Bible (Douay) Eztk. xiii. i3
When they caught the soules of my people, they did vivifi.
cate their soules. 1653 H. More Conject. Cabbal. 31 Even
as God vivificates and actuates the whole world. 1675 O.
Walker, etc /"ar-o/J/ir. St. Paul 161 The sensitive., soul or
faculty continues meanwhile in the body..vivificating it.
18x9 H. Busk Veslriad 1. 217 Whose blood vivificates thy
veins.
1 2. intr. To become endued with life. Obs.-"^
i66a Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. (1687) 551/3 This beam
penetrates to the Abyss, and thereby all things vivificate.
Hence Vivifloating/^/. a.
a 1688 CuDwoRTH Immut. Mar. iii. ii. §3. (1731) 89 The
Compound .of the Body . and a certain Vivificating Light,
imparted from the Soul to it.
ViTification (vi:vifik,?'-j3n). Also 6-7 viui-,
7 uiui-. [ad. L. vivifuatio (TertuUi.tn), n. of
action f. vivificare : see prec. and -ATloM. So F.
vivification, Sp. vimficcuion, Pg. -czfao. It. vivificazione.']
animate ; to quicken.
»545 Ravnald Byrth Mankynde 42 Throughe these
artyres Huely spirite, and fresshe acre, isdiriuied out of the
mother into the childe, wherwith the naturall hete of the
chylde is viuified and refresshed. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's
Fr, Chirurg. *iij, Let us consider on the Sunne..
what doth she eflfect?. .[she doth} warme us, vivifye and
administre lyfe vnto vs. 1615 Cbooke Body 0/ Man 263
Mercurius Trismegistus snide well, that it was the spirite
which viuifieth or quickneth euery forme in the whole
world. 1653 W. Ramesev Astrol. Restored 86 [They]
placed a fierjr sign first, for that heat ruletli in fire, by
which all things are quickened and vivifyed. a 1693
Urguhart's Rabelais 111. iii. 39 The great Soul of the
i/«iW/'j^..vivifyeth alt manner of things, x-j^ Monthly
Rezu XXX. 568 In this explosion of life, every particle of
and numberless races of vegetables
native soil was vivified ;
and animals were produced. 1859 Kingslkv Misc. (i860)
I. 359 An instinct of the dynamic and supernatural laws
which underlie and vivify this material universe. 1881
Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter 0/ Air 224 An indraught
slight no doubt, but stiti sufficient to contaminate or vivify
the infusion.
b. transf. andyf^. (Common in 19th c.)
1603 Florio Montaigne i. xix. 30 As in nature one contrarie
is vivified by another contrarie. 1713 Pope Guardian
No. II r3 It [an elixir] restores and vivifies the most
dejected Minds. 1776 Str J. Reynolds Disc, vii. (1876) 408
That Promethean fire, which animates the canvass and vivifies
the marble. 1788 Gibbon Decl.^ F. xlix. V. 144 Their
execution would have vivified the empire. 183a Ht.
Martinkau Each 9f All'vt. 59 The utmost that education
can do is to extend man's views, to exalt his aims, and vivify
his powers. 1833 Alison Hist. Europe (1849) 1. iii. §68.
322 His plan was to viyify the State by vigorous measures,
1865 Mozley Mirac, i. 4 It vivifies the stock we have, but
does not add one item to it. 1005 Sat. Rev. 29 April 545/2
It enables its 'sujKrs' to snout. .and thereby vivify a
languishing enthusiasm.
c. Phys, To convert into living tissue.
1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med, IV. 416 An incision.. to lay
open any sinuous track, vivify callous edges, or remove
spongy granulations, .must be tried.
2. To make brighter or more brilliant.
1791 Mks. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ii, The sun appeared
in all his glory, . .vivifying every colour of the landscape.
1821 Craig Lect. Dra'wing^ etc. li. 127 'this covering, .vivifies
the most brilliant colours. 1885 'Mrs, Alexander'
I'alerie's F'ate i, The bright.. autumnal sunshine was vivifying
the many.tinted trees of the Bois de Boulogne.
b. To render more animated or striking.
1833 Ht. Martineau Three Ages i. 26 His ready wit
seldom failed to interpose to illustrate and vivify what was
said. 1853 Felton F'atn. Lett. xi. (1865) 100, I always try
to vivify an idea by embodying it in some manner. 1885
Manch. Exam. 25 Feb. 3/3 This little volume is.. vivified
throughout by the sympathetic yet discriminating apprecia.
tion which pays all due honour to the hero.