enquicken

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UK/ɛnˈkwɪkə̆n/

verb

Imbue with divine vitality.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

verbenquicken (third-person singular simple present enquickens, present participle enquickening, simple past and past participle enquickened)

present singular third person enquickens · participle present enquickening · participle past enquickened · past enquickened

  1. rareImbue with divine vitality.

    […] Let some, my Lord, of thy bright Glories beams, Flash quickening Flames of Glory in mine eye T’enquicken my dull Spirits, drunke with dreams Of Melancholy…

    1989, Edward Taylor, The Poems of Edward Taylor, page 206
    2 more examples

    How much more ought we, WITH OUR BLESSED MOTHER THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AT ALL CHASTENINGS [CHRISTENINGS] PRESUME that Sacramental grace doth like a soul enquicken the body of the outward element, and receive those for our true fellow-members of Christ, who have been made partakers of the same laver of regeneration?

    circa 1623–1635, Dr. John Mayer D.D., Commentary on the Short Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, etc., page 7

    Lord make thy beams my frost bit heart to warm. Ride on these Rayes into my bosom’s till And make thy Glory mine affections Charm. Thy rapid flames my Love enquicken will. Then I in Glories Tower thy Praise will sing On my Shoshannim tun’d on ev’ry string.

    2003, Edward Taylor, Edward Taylor’s Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations: A Critical Edition, page 343

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Old Frenchen-
  6. Middle Englishen-
  7. Englishen-
  8. Englishquicken
  9. Englishenquicken

From en- + quicken.

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Chicago

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