revivifying

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The flowers possess cordial virtues which are very revivifying, and have been much commended against melancholic depression of the nervous system.

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  • Zombiefication, as Little Prof points out, "might be just what English departments need: a sure-fire strategy for revivifying (so to speak) the canon!" —  Inside Higher Ed
  • A sense of revivifying was in the air. —  The Heart of Unaga
  • At night the perfume crept in to him through crannies of the close-shut amado and shoji, revivifying, to keen agony, his longing for his wife. —  The Dragon Painter
  • The flowers possess cordial virtues which are very revivifying, and have been much commended against melancholic depression of the nervous system. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • When they returned to the fire the old man, who was busy with the cooking, looked up to speak but instead gazed in silence, caught by something unusual in their aspect, revivifying, illuminating, like the radiance of an inner glow. —  The Emigrant Trail
 

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