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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
vivification
    n 1: quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
         [syn: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio,
         vivification]
    2: the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something [syn:
       vivification, invigoration, animation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vivification \Viv`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. vivificatio: cf.
   vivification.]
   1. The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified;
      restoration of life; revival. --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Physiol.) One of the changes of assimilation, in which
      proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part
      of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and
      thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability,
      contractility, etc. --McKendrick.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Chem.) The act or process of vivificating. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

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