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VIVIFYING. 272 VIXEN,
3. absoL 'To impart life or animation.
1616 Bacon Syiz'a §696 Which should shew, that Snow
hath in it a secret Warmth ; For else it could hardly
Viuific; 1655 Vaughan SiUx Sctnt. 11. Quickness, 'Tis such
a blissful thing, that still Doth vivifie. X85S L, Host Da^
6f tie Fir/-, Ka/ny Day [1B70) sgi U[& Urt] U\k& to us;. .It
is vivified at our touch ; it vivifies in return. 1871 Tyndall
Frtxgm. Set. (1879) II. xiv. 359 The one may vivify, while
the other kills.
4. intr. To acquire life ; to become alive.
1737 Bkackkn Farriery Impr. (1757) I'- 277 The Ova
will vivify or come to Life sooner. 1768 Foote Z>^mV iii.
Wks. 1799 II. 276 They quit their torpid state, and vivify.
x84t Loudon SubnrbMi Hort. 113 The egg begins to vivify
and swell with the heat of the spring. 1867 RoutUd^e s
Ev. Bay's Ann, May 377 A sign that the eggs have vivihed,
and that they will probably hatch out. 1899 Daify News
I July 8/7 When the egjs have vivified, the young salmon
will be tended until the two-year-old stage.
Hence Vi-vifying vdL sb.
i860 PusEV Mitu Proph. 2 The calf was the symbol, .of..
His continued vivifyingofall which lives. 1884 Earl Grey
in Life Mandelt Creighton {ile a.^ capable of being,
liable to be, vivisected.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 317/2 The artificial vomiting
of *vivisected animals. 1880 Meredith Tragic Com. v,
The vivisected youth received the caress which quickened
him to wholeness at a touch. x886 Pall MatlG. 3 June5/'2
Whether any attempt at the absolute prohibition of vivisection
would not react to the disadvantage of the unhappy
' *vivisectees '. 1875 Hoggan Let. in Morn. Post 2 Feb.,
I am inclined to look upon anaesthetics as the greatest curse
to *vivisectible animals. 1876 J. J. G. Wilkinson Hum.
Sci, \ghy 18a) vii, pe fixenetf.r.
fixen] of Jw foxe bereth as longe, as J>e bicche of J>e wolfe
bereth hir whelpes. 1605 Verstecan Dec. Intell. x. (1628)
334 Fixen.. is the name of a she-fox otherwise and more
anciently foxin. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vixen or Fixenj