vivificate

from The Century Dictionary.

• To give life to; animate; vivify.
• In old chemistry, to restore or reduce to the natural state or to the metallic state, as a substance from a solution or a metal from an oxid; revive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb rare To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
• transitive verb (Chem.), obsolete To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb obsolete, transitive To give life to; to animate.
• verb chemistry, obsolete, transitive To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from oxide or solution; to reduce.