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When the requisite supply of oxygen is reduced, the extrication of heat within the system is promptly diminished, but the vitalization of digested food is unfavorably affected much more slowly, but with equal certainty.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various

The big country-life idea, the working of great economic forces to put its vitalization within sight, the coming equilibrium by the restoration of country life—all coincident with his coming into the Presidency.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

Clearer teaching about social morality is fundamental, but the great need, after all, is the vitalization of morality.

From The Church and Modern Life by Gladden, Washington

It is this complementary field of psychology to which the economists must turn, as these writers have turned, for a vitalization of their basic hypotheses.

From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Parker, Cornelia Stratton

Faith here expresses the religion of Thought, Hope the religion of the Imagination, and Charity the religion of the Affections, which is greatest of all because it is the vitalization of the other two.

From The Elements of Character by Chandler, Mary G.