enquicken
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
enquicken (third-person singular simple present enquickens, present participle enquickening, simple past and past participle enquickened)
- (rare) Imbue with divine vitality.
- circa 1623–1635, Dr. John Mayer D.D., Commentary on the Short Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, etc., page 7:
- 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?
- 1989, Edward Taylor, The Poems of Edward Taylor, page 206:
- […] 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…
- 2003, Edward Taylor, Edward Taylor’s Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations: A Critical Edition, page 343:
- 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.
- circa 1623–1635, Dr. John Mayer D.D., Commentary on the Short Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, etc., page 7: