Definition of "vivifying" []

• Present participle of vivify. (verb)

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• "But the reason why this deliverance is attributed to that subject, arises from the cause of deliverance, that is, the vivifying Spirit, which Spirit, as it exists in Christ and is to be obtained in him, is likewise in "those who are in Christ Jesus.""
• "Whether this quality be simply a stimulus exciting the egg into animal action, which may be called a vivifying principle, or whether part of it be actually conjoined with the egg is not yet determined, though the latter seems more probable from the frequent resemblance of the fetus to the male parent."
• "Arid let it not be overlooked that this was the time of Poland's intellectual renascence ” a time when the influence of man over man is greater than at other times, he being, as it were, charged with a kind of vivifying electricity."