What is "vivifies"

Usage examples of "vivifies".

For there is no need of excellent capacity for this task, that putting away the desire of contention, they may observe that if God is the soul of the world, and the world is as a body to Him, who is the soul, He must be one living being consisting of soul and body, and that this same God is a kind of womb of nature containing all things in Himself, so that the lives and souls of all living things are taken, according to the manner of each one’s birth, out of His soul which vivifies that whole mass, and therefore nothing at all remains which is not a part of God.

Besides, each man recognizes his own life-that life by which he now lives in the body, and which vivifies these earthly members and causes them to grow-by an interior sense, and not by his bodily eye.

If even the prospect so vivifies you, the actual visit ought to do you a world of good.

When the outward battle is lost, and the outer world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interior world which otherwise would be an empty waste.

They filled their lungs because sea air vivifies: only their breathing, deep and regular as that of sleepers, still testified that they were alive.