vivification

Indeed, when we have gone as far as we please in denouncing shams, ridiculing men in buff-jerkins, and the whole Wardour Street business of gimcrack and Brummagem antiquities, it still remains true that Scott's great service was what we may call the vivification of history.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

And because there is in it a communication of a new spiritual life, it is called a "vivification" or "quickening," with respect unto the state wherein all men are before this work is wrought in them and on them,

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Here again that process of "vivification," which has been so often dwelt on, makes an astonishing progress -- the blood and colour of the novel, which distinguish it from the more statuesque narrative, are supplied, if indirectly yet sufficiently and, in comparison with previous examples, amply.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

In the same way we should examine the hatching of eggs, in which we might easily observe the whole process of vivification and organization, and see what parts proceed from the yolk and what from the white of the egg, and so forth.

The New Organon 2005

Intriguingly, the current neo-liberal rhetoric of globalization amounts to a re-vivification of a position rendered temporarily obsolete by the early nineteenth century.

Introduction 2000

Learning, as Socrates tries to demonstrate in his conversation with the slave-boy, is nothing but a vivification of the ideas innately present in the human mind at birth.

The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

This is its renovation as it is a rational, vital faculty; and of this vivification see before.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Scripture, on several accounts, variously expresseth; sometimes by regeneration, or a new birth; sometimes by conversion, or turning unto God; sometimes by vivification, or quickening from the dead; sometimes from illumination, or opening the eyes of the blind; — all which are carried on by sanctification in holiness, and attended with justification and adoption.

A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God 1616-1683 1965

So sanctification, mortification, vivification, and the like, do all denote a real internal work on the subject spoken of.

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

For mortification and vivification, which, as integral parts, contain the whole of regeneration, are completed in us by our participation of the death and resurrection of Christ.

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956