英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɪvɪfaɪ/
• ハイフネーション: viv‧ify

動詞

vivify (third-person singular simple present vivifies, present participle vivifying, simple past and past participle vivified)

1. (transitive) To bring to life; to enliven.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset.

   • 1893 April 30, “Society”, in Sioux City Journal, number 7349, Sioux City, Ia.: Perkins Bros. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 2, page 9, column 6:

     Persephone, the life force which vivifies all in the spring time, producing the manifold harvests of earth, descends with Plouton to the under world in autumn.

   • 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Walk on the Campagna”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 237:

     [T]he sculptor lifted it [a round block of stone], turned it hither and thither in his hands, brushed off the clinging soil, and finally placed it on the slender neck of the newly discovered statue. The effect was magical. It immediately lighted up and vivified the whole figure, endowing it with personality, soul, and intelligence.

2. (transitive) To impart vitality to.

派生語

• autovivify