Quickened

Word QUICKENED
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Definitions and meanings of "Quickened"

What do we mean by quickened?

To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.

To come back to life, receive life.

To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.

Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.

To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.

To become faster.

To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.

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The word "quickened" in example sentences

The face which had been drained of all expression quickened into agonized feeling. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)

A familiar letter sprang out at him, each word quickened by its glaring garb of type. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Christ was quickened, that is to say, was active, in His own spirit state, although His body was inert and in reality dead at the time; and that _in_ that disembodied state He went and preached to the disobedient spirits. ❋ James Edward Talmage (1897)

Nay, rather, he appreciated it the more, as some writers find literary perception and power of expression quickened at the influence of music itself. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

Christ, says the Bible, was put to death in the flesh; but quickened, that is, brought to life, by the Spirit. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Whether or not this is a valid reading (the amnesiac flailing attached to the thickening stage in Clute's narrative grammar of horror seems at odds with the "quickened" state of a liminal hero), it seems entirely appropriate that the end-state of this singularity is a sort of total infusion of consciousness and worldscape, the hero telepathically aware of what everyone in the world is thinking. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Spirit so "quickened" them that they were able to understand and appreciate one of the most spiritual of all his Epistles. ❋ Frank F. Ellinwood (N/A)

Now Gregory XIV had enacted the penalty of excommunication for abortion of a "quickened" child but the present law makes no such distinction, and therefore it must be differently understood. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

My explanation of it is this: the subject works his emotions up to the breaking point, at the same time resisting their physical manifestations, such as quickened pulse, etc., and then suddenly lets them have their full sway over his body. ❋ Unknown (1902)

"Put to death" in the former mode of life; "quickened" in the other. ❋ Unknown (1871)

"quickened" are scratch-brushed and dipped into the cyanide of mercury solution till they are uniformly white; it is generally agreed that the less the mercury deposited the better, so long as a perfect coating is obtained. ❋ Richard Threlfall (N/A)

"blessed and holy," they are "quickened" to a new life in Christ. ❋ Unknown (1913)

"quickened" and "animation" in present usage are applied to the child after the mother can percieve its motion, which usually happens about the one hundred and sixteenth day after conception. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

a hatred to it, is so vastly important, that it forms the only infallible test to distinguish between those who are "quickened" by the Spirit of God, and those who "have a name to live and are dead." ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

The objections are "quickened" must refer to Christ's body (compare 1Pe ❋ Unknown (1871)

Let Industry inspire / Into your quickened limbs her buoyant breath! ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

According to a House committee report released yesterday, “capital works projects funded by the U.S. economic stimulus plan created or saved more than 21,000 jobs by the end of May … showing that the pace of stimulus job creation has quickened.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

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