vivify

How to use vivify in a sentence

• It was a vivified clay man who had to do the bidding of him who had given him temporary life.

  The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century | Leo Wiener

• They gave her a feeling of life again, and vivified things which had meant nothing to her.

  Sons and Lovers | David Herbert Lawrence

• The language is generally nervous and vigorous, occasionally vivified with imaginative energy.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 | Various

• According to Loskiel, they declare, ‘that Indians cannot die eternally; for even Indian corn is vivified, and rises again.’

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 | Various

• I feel crushed and overwhelmed, not stimulated and vivified, as is so often described.

  Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge | Arthur Christopher Benson