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quicken
Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. Romans 4:17. Hence flocks and herds, and men and beasts and fowls, with breath are quicken’d and attract their souls.
quicken
To make alive in a spiritual sense; to communicate a principle of grace to. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:1.
quicken
To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.
quicken
To sharpen; to give keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires.
quicken
To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Psalm 119:25.
quicken
verb intransitive
quik’n.
quicken
To become alive. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
quicken
To move with rapidity or activity. And keener lightning quickens in her eye.