Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to vivify
Participle: vivified
Gerund: vivifying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | vivify |
| you | vivify |
| he;she;it | vivifies |
| we | vivify |
| you | vivify |
| they | vivify |
Perfect
| I | have vivified |
| you | have vivified |
| he;she;it | has vivified |
| we | have vivified |
| you | have vivified |
| they | have vivified |
Past
| I | vivified |
| you | vivified |
| he;she;it | vivified |
| we | vivified |
| you | vivified |
| they | vivified |
Pluperfect
| I | had vivified |
| you | had vivified |
| he;she;it | had vivified |
| we | had vivified |
| you | had vivified |
| they | had vivified |
Future
| I | will vivify |
| you | will vivify |
| he;she;it | will vivify |
| we | will vivify |
| you | will vivify |
| they | will vivify |
Future Perfect
| I | will have vivified |
| you | will have vivified |
| he;she;it | will have vivified |
| we | will have vivified |
| you | will have vivified |
| they | will have vivified |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | vivify |
| you | vivify |
| he;she;it | vivify |
| we | vivify |
| you | vivify |
| they | vivify |
Perfect
| I | have vivified |
| you | have vivified |
| he;she;it | have vivified |
| we | have vivified |
| you | have vivified |
| they | have vivified |
Imperfect
| I | vivified |
| you | vivified |
| he;she;it | vivified |
| we | vivified |
| you | vivified |
| they | vivified |
Pluperfect
| I | had vivified |
| you | had vivified |
| he;she;it | had vivified |
| we | had vivified |
| you | had vivified |
| they | had vivified |
Conditional
Present
| I | would vivify |
| you | would vivify |
| he;she;it | would vivify |
| we | would vivify |
| you | would vivify |
| they | would vivify |
Perfect
| I | would have vivified |
| you | would have vivified |
| he;she;it | would have vivified |
| we | would have vivified |
| you | would have vivified |
| they | would have vivified |
Imperative
| you | vivify |
| we | Let's vivify |
| you | vivify |
Verbs conjugated like 'vivify'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'vivify'
vilify,
vinify,
citify,
finify,
minify,
nidify,
revivify,
varify,
verify,
vitrify,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1595, from O.Fr.
vivifier (12c.), from L.L.
vivificare "make alive, restore to life," from
vivificus "enlivening," from L.
vivus "alive" (see vivid) + root of
facere "to make" (see factitious).
Vivificate in same sense is recorded from 1432.
2. Borrowed from Old French vivifier, from Late Latin vivificō. See: Old French '
vivifier'.
Sample Sentences
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She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset. [1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:]
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Persephone, the life force which vivifies all in the spring time, producing the manifold harvests of earth, descends with Plouton to the under world in autumn. [1893 April 30, “Society”, in Sioux City Journal, number 7349, Sioux City, Ia.: Perkins Bros. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 2, page 9, column 6:]
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[T]he sculptor lifted it [a round block of stone], turned it hither and thither in his hands, brushed off the clinging soil, and finally placed it on the slender neck of the newly discovered statue. The effect was magical. It immediately lighted up and vivified the whole figure, endowing it with personality, soul, and intelligence. [1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Walk on the Campagna”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 237:]