What's the difference between vivificate and vivify?

Vivificate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
  • (v. t.) To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A comparison of the preparations received shows that the organism's immunologic reformation resulting from the rheumatic process is characterised by growing reticulolymphoblastic, plasmocellular and macrophage reactions and vivification of sinuslymphocytopoiesis which proved to be in strict correlation with the extent of rheumatic activity.
  • (2) However, the presumed degree of precisiĆ³n reached runs parallel to the apartness of the fidelity to the effective vivification of the patient.

Vivify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years."
  • (2) The Twittersphere buzzed with guffaws when the young peer's maiden speech last week compared big society with a "coral reef" where the fish of "the local citizen groups extend, vivify and shape this landscape".
  • (3) Contemplate these most worthy and excellent examples, breathe deeply of the vivifying air of failure, and heap pity upon the likes of poor Eleanor Catton, who is going to have to spend the rest of her life with a major achievement behind her.

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