Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reanimate; give new life to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to.
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- verb transitive To
quicken anew; toreanimate or give new life to.
Etymologies
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re- + quicken
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Examples
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And even this reminder that he was passing for a few days under a tyranny that was yet more severe failed to requicken any resentment.
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Would it know if yet its ashes may requicken? yet we deem
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Her breath to requicken, her bosom to rock us, her kisses to bless as of yore?
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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"Thy brother is dead;" and quoth he in himself, "The accursed fellow cozeneth me, so he may get all the coin for himself, but I will presently do with him what shall soon requicken him."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
qroqqa commented on the word requicken
and his youth
Gave his fame flowerlike fragrance and soft growth
As of a rose requickening, when he stood
Fair in their eye, a flower of faultless blood.
—Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse
July 16, 2008