Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which enlivens, animates, vivifies, or invigorates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
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- noun That which
enlivens .
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- noun an agent that gives or restores life or vigor
Etymologies
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Examples
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His pale blue eyes were fixed in his head, and he chewed steadily at lozenges of peppermint or cinnamon to hide the perfume of the glass of "enlivener" with which his wife had bribed him as an argument for submitting to get up and be dressed.
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Different parties of pleasure were talked of: but still the enlivener of every party was not to be in any one of them.
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Savitri the Sun as quickener or enlivener, Mitra the bright Sun of the morn; Pushan the Sun of the shepherds; Varuna was the sky as all-embracing; Aditya the sky as boundless.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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He has these, the physical side and the spiritual side, under two names, the glowing one, S [= u] rya, and the enlivener, Savitar; [4] but he is also the good god who bestows benefits, and as such he was known, probably locally, by the name of Bhaga.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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It did him no great harm; it might be taken for an enlivener; he was dead on his favourite spot the ensuing round, played postman on it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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It did him no great harm; it might be taken for an enlivener; he was dead on his favourite spot the ensuing round, played postman on it.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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It did him no great harm; it might be taken for an enlivener; he was dead on his favourite spot the ensuing round, played postman on it.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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There is no enlivener of the imagination, no enabler of the judgment, no strengthener of the intellect, to compare with the belief in a live Ideal, at the heart of all personality, as of every law.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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Joe Manton just then brought in a bouquet for Miss Evelyn, a very common enlivener of the breakfast-table, all the more when, as in the present case, the sisters could not divine where it came from.
Queechy 1854
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Joe Manton just then brought in a bouquet for Miss Evelyn, a very common enlivener of the breakfast-table, all the more when, as in the present case, the sisters could not divine where it came from.
Queechy Susan Warner 1852
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