vivify

• Leaven comes from the root word that means enliven -- to vivify, to bring to life. —  Peter Reinhart on bread
• It was held to be active, reasoning, thinking; its natural home in the highest regions of the Universe, whence it descended to illuminate, give form and movement to, vivify, animate, and carry with itself the baser matter; and whither it unceasingly tends to reascend, when and as soon as it can free itself from its connection with that matter. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• Cleanse, vivify, and distinguish the body and the soul, so that, when this tabernacle of clay crumbles from around it, the unimprisoned spirit soars into the universe at once, and, looking back upon the shadowy king bearing his pale prey to the tomb, exclaims, "O death, where is thy sting? —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• It is the admirable organ through which the man sends forth his influence either to bless and vivify, or to curse and wither. —  Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3
• But to exaggerate good is to vivify, to enhance our sense of moral coherence and beautiful naturalness; it is to render things more graceful, intelligible, and congenial to the spirit which they ought to serve. —  Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion

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