Definition of "quickener" []

• One who, or that which, quickens. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "—The Decemberists Helpful tempo quickener—short but sweet."
• "He feigns to be the quickener of those things which are immortal by nature, to which things life is always present by their very nature; but he does not benevolently quicken those things which required his assistance, that they might live, but leaves them carelessly to fall under the power of death."
• "Eros is child of Aphrodite, minister of beautiful children, inciter of human souls towards the supernal beauty or quickener of an already existing impulse thither."