See quicken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English quikenen (“to become alive again after dying; to raise (someone) from the dead; to regain consciousness or strength; to give vitality, revive; to regain validity; to nourish; to spare (the life of someone or something); to ignite; to illuminate; of events: to happen more quickly; of clouds: to form”) [and other forms], from quiken (“to come to life; to become alive again after dying; to give or regain vitality, revive; of a seed: to germinate, grow; to arouse (anger); to inspire; to reinforce, strengthen; to make (a substance) alchemically active; to nourish, sustain; to sharpen; to ignite; to illuminate; of news: to spread”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive forms of verbs). Quiken is derived from Old English cwician (“to bring to life, vivify; to come to life, become living; to quicken”), from cwic (“alive, live, living; mentally agile; intelligent, keen”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive; lively; quick”) and Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns). The English word may be analysed as quick (“moving with swiftness; occurring in a short time; (archaic) alive, living; (archaic) pregnant”) + -en (suffix attached to some adjectives forming transitive verbs meaning ‘to make [adjective]’).\ncognates\n* Danish kvikne (“to quicken, revive”)\n* Icelandic kvikna (“to ignite; to turn on”)\n* Swedish kvickna (“to revive”)",
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"ref": "1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “Cecil as a Humourist”, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, part II, page 170:",
"text": "[…] Italy had quickened Cecil, not to tolerance, but to irritation. He saw that the local society was narrow, but, instead of saying, \"Does this very much matter?\" he rebelled, and tried to substitute for it the society he called broad.",
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"ref": "1667; first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at the Consecration of a Chapel”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, pages 289–290:",
"text": "For ſurely, a rich Land, guardleſs and undefended, muſt needs have been a double Incitement, and ſuch an one, as might not only admit, but even invite the Enemy. It was like a fruitful Garden, or a fair Vineyard without an Hedge, that quickens the Appetite to enjoy ſo tempting, and withal ſo eaſy a Prize.",
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"ref": "1723, [Daniel Defoe], The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque, Commonly Call’d Col. Jack, […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], →OCLC, page 106:",
"text": "This quicken'd my Reſolution to reſtore her Money, and not only ſo, but I reſolv'd I would give her ſomething over and above her Loſs; […]",
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"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 206:",
"text": "Strange! how the frequent interjected daſh,\nQuickens a market and helps off the traſh,\nTh' important letters that include the reſt,\nServe as a key to thoſe that are ſuppreſs'd,\nConjecture gripes the victims in his paw,\nThe world is charm'd, and Scrib. eſcapes the law.",
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"ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xvij:[33], folio cv, verso:",
"text": "Whoſoever will goo about to ſave his lyfe⸝ shall looſe it: And whoſoever ſhall looſe his life⸝ ſhall quycken it.",
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"ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 235, column 2:",
"text": "I haue ſeen a medicine\nThat's able to breath life into a ſtone,\nQuicken a rocke, […]",
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"ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 10, column 2:",
"text": "the Miſtris which I ſerue, quickens what's dead,\nAnd makes my labours, pleaſures: […]",
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"ref": "1686, John Bunyan, “[Divine Emblems; or, Temporal Things Spiritualized: Fitted for the Use of Boys and Girls] Meditations upon an Egg”, in Henry Stebbing, editor, The Entire Works of John Bunyan, […], volume IV, London: James S[prent] Virtue, […], published 1863, →OCLC, page 447, column 1:",
"text": "The egg, when laid, by warmth is made a chicken,\nAnd Christ by grace the dead in sin does quicken.",
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"ref": "a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 138, lines 662–663:",
"text": "still the freſh Spring finds\nNew plants to quicken, and new groves to green.",
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"ref": "1819, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, The Cenci: A Tragedy, […], [Livorno], Italy: […] [Percy B. Shelley] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 64:",
"text": "upon Earth\nAll good shall droop and sicken, and ill things\nShall with a spirit of unnatural life\nStir and be quickened … even as I am now.",
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"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "أَحْيَا"
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"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "оживявам"
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"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "възбуждам"
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"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "（使）复原"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "shǐ yǒu huó lì",
"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "使有活力"
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"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "elvyttää"
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"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "herättää henkiin"
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"roman": "gamococxleba",
"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "გამოცოცხლება"
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"roman": "gacocxleba",
"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
"word": "გაცოცხლება"
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"ref": "1870, William Morris, “December: The Fostering of Aslaug”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 75:",
"text": "[…] she\nQuickened the fire and laid the board, […]",
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"ref": "1887, Robert Browning, “With Charles Avison”, in Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day: […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 210:",
"text": "Was it alight once? Still lives spark enough\nFor breath to quicken, run the smouldering ash\nRed right through.",
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"ref": "1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Coole Violets, and Orpine growing ſtill,\nEmbathed Balme, and chearfull Galingale,\nFreſh Coſtmarie, and breathfull Camomill,\nPoppie, and drink-quickning Setuale, […]",
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"ref": "1631, Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof. And First Touching the Maturation and Quickning of Drinks. And Next Touching the Maturation of Fruits..]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 314, page 82:",
"text": "It were good alſo to Enforce the Spirits by ſome Mixtures, that may excite and quicken them.",
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"(transitive)",
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"ref": "1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 46:",
"text": "Venus, for Hero was her prieſt, and Iuno Lucina the midwifes goddeſſe, for ſhe was now quickned, and caſt away by the cruelty of Æolus, tooke bread and ſalt and eate it, that they would bee ſmartlie reuenged on that truculent windy iailour, and they forgot it not, for Venus made his ſonne and his daughter to committe inceſt together.",
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"ref": "1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “[Sonnets and Songs, towards a Work to be Called ‘The House of Life.’ Sonnets.] The House of Life. Sonnet I. Bridal Birth.”, in Poems, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 189:",
"text": "Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst\nAnd exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay\nQuickening in darkness, till a voice that day\nCried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.",
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},
{
"ref": "1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 15:",
"text": "The Chaplain's interest in the story visibly quickened.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1938 May, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Scoop: A Novel about Journalists, uniform edition, London: Chapman & Hall, published 1948 (1951 printing), →OCLC, book II (Stones £20), page 164:",
"text": "The milch-goat looked up from her supper of waste paper; her perennial optimism quickened within her, and swelled to a great and mature confidence; […]",
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}
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"ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 128:",
"text": "The fair each moment riſes in her charms,\nRepairs her ſmiles, awakens ev'ry grace,\nAnd calls forth all the wonders of her face;\nSees by degrees a purer bluſh ariſe,\nAnd keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.",
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"ref": "1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 29:",
"text": "She found no rest, and ever fail'd to draw\nThe quiet night into her blood, but lay\nContemplating her own unworthiness;\nAnd when the pale and bloodless east began\nTo quicken to the sun, arose, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1885, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Maruja, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 6:",
"text": "Meanwhile the light quickened, and gradually disclosed the form and outline of the adjacent domain.",
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}
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"To grow bright; to brighten."
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"Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment."
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"ref": "1663 January 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 1st, 1662–1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume III, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "[…] about a month ago she [Lady Castlemaine] quickened at my Lord Gerard's at dinner, and cried out that she was undone; and all the lords and men were fain to quit the room, and women called to help her.",
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{
"ref": "1695, Richard Blackmore, “Book II”, in Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil […], →OCLC, pages 35–36:",
"text": "Almighty Vigour ſtrove though all the Void,\nAnd ſuch prolifick Influence employ'd,\nThat ancient, barren Night did pregnant grow,\nAnd quicken'd with the World in Embrio.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2013 February 21, Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies”, in Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor, London Review of Books, volume 35, number 4, London: LRB Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-27:",
"text": "Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 71:",
"text": "O I, as ſummers flies, are in the ſhambles,\nThat quicken euen with blovving: […]",
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{
"ref": "1712 May, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “The First Book of Statius his Thebais”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 40:",
"text": "Goddeſs of Shades, beneath whoſe gloomy Reign\nYon ſpangled Arch glows with the ſtarry Train,\nWho doſt the Cares of Heav'n and Earth allay,\nTill Nature quicken'd by th'Inſpiring Ray,\nWakes to new Vigor with the riſing Day.",
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{
"ref": "1729 April, [John] Gay, Polly: An Opera. Being the Second Part of The Beggar’s Opera, London: […] T. Thomson [actually by James Watson and Samuel Aris for Thomas Astley], […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:",
"text": "But in every Vein\nLife quickens again\nOn the Boſom of May.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 225:",
"text": "Below were men and horses pierced with worms,\nAnd slowly quickening into lower forms;\nBy shards and scurf of salt, and scum of dross,\nOld plash of rains, and refuse patch'd with moss.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"ref": "1631, Francis [Bacon], “X. Century. [Experiments in Consort, Touching the Secret Vertue of Sympathy, and Antipathy.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 990, page 255:",
"text": "For you may ſooner by Imagination, quicken or ſlacke a Motion, than raiſe or ceaſe it; As it is eaſier to make a Dog goe ſlower, than to make him ſtand ſtill that he may not runne.",
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},
{
"ref": "1776 March 9, Adam Smith, “Of the Division of Labour”, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, book I (Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour, […]), page 12:",
"text": "Whoever has been much accuſtomed to viſit ſuch manufactures, muſt frequently have been ſhown very pretty machines, which were the inventions of common workmen in order to facilitate and quicken their own particular part of the work.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:",
"text": "Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Spectra, published November 2000, →ISBN, page 38:",
"text": "That day Arya [Stark] quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.",
"type": "quote"
}
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},
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},
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},
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},
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
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},
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
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},
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
"word": "დაჩქარება"
},
{
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
"word": "ასწრაფება"
},
{
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
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},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ускоря́ть"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
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],
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},
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
"word": "agilizar"
},
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},
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"sense": "to make (something) quicker — see also hasten, speed up",
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"Sciences",
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"3": "*gʷeyh₃-",
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"name": "inh"
},
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},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
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},
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},
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"name": "suffix"
},
{
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"1": "1"
},
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},
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"1": "da",
"2": "kvikne",
"t": "to quicken, revive"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "is",
"2": "kvikna",
"t": "to ignite; to turn on"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "kvickna",
"t": "to revive"
},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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"ref": "1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “Cecil as a Humourist”, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, part II, page 170:",
"text": "[…] Italy had quickened Cecil, not to tolerance, but to irritation. He saw that the local society was narrow, but, instead of saying, \"Does this very much matter?\" he rebelled, and tried to substitute for it the society he called broad.",
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"To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse."
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"word": "stir up"
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"word": "thrill"
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"ref": "1667; first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at the Consecration of a Chapel”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, pages 289–290:",
"text": "For ſurely, a rich Land, guardleſs and undefended, muſt needs have been a double Incitement, and ſuch an one, as might not only admit, but even invite the Enemy. It was like a fruitful Garden, or a fair Vineyard without an Hedge, that quickens the Appetite to enjoy ſo tempting, and withal ſo eaſy a Prize.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1723, [Daniel Defoe], The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque, Commonly Call’d Col. Jack, […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], →OCLC, page 106:",
"text": "This quicken'd my Reſolution to reſtore her Money, and not only ſo, but I reſolv'd I would give her ſomething over and above her Loſs; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 206:",
"text": "Strange! how the frequent interjected daſh,\nQuickens a market and helps off the traſh,\nTh' important letters that include the reſt,\nServe as a key to thoſe that are ſuppreſs'd,\nConjecture gripes the victims in his paw,\nThe world is charm'd, and Scrib. eſcapes the law.",
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"To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.)."
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"word": "spark off"
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"Senses relating to life or states of activity.",
"To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.)."
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"ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xvij:[33], folio cv, verso:",
"text": "Whoſoever will goo about to ſave his lyfe⸝ shall looſe it: And whoſoever ſhall looſe his life⸝ ſhall quycken it.",
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{
"ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 235, column 2:",
"text": "I haue ſeen a medicine\nThat's able to breath life into a ſtone,\nQuicken a rocke, […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 10, column 2:",
"text": "the Miſtris which I ſerue, quickens what's dead,\nAnd makes my labours, pleaſures: […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1686, John Bunyan, “[Divine Emblems; or, Temporal Things Spiritualized: Fitted for the Use of Boys and Girls] Meditations upon an Egg”, in Henry Stebbing, editor, The Entire Works of John Bunyan, […], volume IV, London: James S[prent] Virtue, […], published 1863, →OCLC, page 447, column 1:",
"text": "The egg, when laid, by warmth is made a chicken,\nAnd Christ by grace the dead in sin does quicken.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 138, lines 662–663:",
"text": "still the freſh Spring finds\nNew plants to quicken, and new groves to green.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1819, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, The Cenci: A Tragedy, […], [Livorno], Italy: […] [Percy B. Shelley] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 64:",
"text": "upon Earth\nAll good shall droop and sicken, and ill things\nShall with a spirit of unnatural life\nStir and be quickened … even as I am now.",
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"ref": "1870, William Morris, “December: The Fostering of Aslaug”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 75:",
"text": "[…] she\nQuickened the fire and laid the board, […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1887, Robert Browning, “With Charles Avison”, in Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day: […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 210:",
"text": "Was it alight once? Still lives spark enough\nFor breath to quicken, run the smouldering ash\nRed right through.",
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"ref": "1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Coole Violets, and Orpine growing ſtill,\nEmbathed Balme, and chearfull Galingale,\nFreſh Coſtmarie, and breathfull Camomill,\nPoppie, and drink-quickning Setuale, […]",
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"ref": "1631, Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof. And First Touching the Maturation and Quickning of Drinks. And Next Touching the Maturation of Fruits..]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 314, page 82:",
"text": "It were good alſo to Enforce the Spirits by ſome Mixtures, that may excite and quicken them.",
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"ref": "1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 46:",
"text": "Venus, for Hero was her prieſt, and Iuno Lucina the midwifes goddeſſe, for ſhe was now quickned, and caſt away by the cruelty of Æolus, tooke bread and ſalt and eate it, that they would bee ſmartlie reuenged on that truculent windy iailour, and they forgot it not, for Venus made his ſonne and his daughter to committe inceſt together.",
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"ref": "1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “[Sonnets and Songs, towards a Work to be Called ‘The House of Life.’ Sonnets.] The House of Life. Sonnet I. Bridal Birth.”, in Poems, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 189:",
"text": "Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst\nAnd exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay\nQuickening in darkness, till a voice that day\nCried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 15:",
"text": "The Chaplain's interest in the story visibly quickened.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1938 May, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Scoop: A Novel about Journalists, uniform edition, London: Chapman & Hall, published 1948 (1951 printing), →OCLC, book II (Stones £20), page 164:",
"text": "The milch-goat looked up from her supper of waste paper; her perennial optimism quickened within her, and swelled to a great and mature confidence; […]",
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}
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{
"ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 128:",
"text": "The fair each moment riſes in her charms,\nRepairs her ſmiles, awakens ev'ry grace,\nAnd calls forth all the wonders of her face;\nSees by degrees a purer bluſh ariſe,\nAnd keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.",
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"ref": "1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 29:",
"text": "She found no rest, and ever fail'd to draw\nThe quiet night into her blood, but lay\nContemplating her own unworthiness;\nAnd when the pale and bloodless east began\nTo quicken to the sun, arose, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1885, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Maruja, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 6:",
"text": "Meanwhile the light quickened, and gradually disclosed the form and outline of the adjacent domain.",
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}
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{
"ref": "1663 January 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 1st, 1662–1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume III, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "[…] about a month ago she [Lady Castlemaine] quickened at my Lord Gerard's at dinner, and cried out that she was undone; and all the lords and men were fain to quit the room, and women called to help her.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1695, Richard Blackmore, “Book II”, in Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil […], →OCLC, pages 35–36:",
"text": "Almighty Vigour ſtrove though all the Void,\nAnd ſuch prolifick Influence employ'd,\nThat ancient, barren Night did pregnant grow,\nAnd quicken'd with the World in Embrio.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 February 21, Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies”, in Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor, London Review of Books, volume 35, number 4, London: LRB Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-27:",
"text": "Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"text": "Goddeſs of Shades, beneath whoſe gloomy Reign\nYon ſpangled Arch glows with the ſtarry Train,\nWho doſt the Cares of Heav'n and Earth allay,\nTill Nature quicken'd by th'Inſpiring Ray,\nWakes to new Vigor with the riſing Day.",
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"text": "Below were men and horses pierced with worms,\nAnd slowly quickening into lower forms;\nBy shards and scurf of salt, and scum of dross,\nOld plash of rains, and refuse patch'd with moss.",
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"text": "For you may ſooner by Imagination, quicken or ſlacke a Motion, than raiſe or ceaſe it; As it is eaſier to make a Dog goe ſlower, than to make him ſtand ſtill that he may not runne.",
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"text": "Whoever has been much accuſtomed to viſit ſuch manufactures, muſt frequently have been ſhown very pretty machines, which were the inventions of common workmen in order to facilitate and quicken their own particular part of the work.",
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"sense": "to give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead) — see also animate, resurrect, revive",
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"ref": "1924 April, Ford Madox Ford, chapter V, in Some Do Not … […] (Parade’s End; 1), 2nd edition, London: Duckworth and Company […], published June 1924, →OCLC, part 1, page 132:",
"text": "[…] Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken at the edges and small green haws to show.",
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"In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia)."
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"word": "quickbeam"
},
{
"word": "quick tree"
}
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"ref": "1816, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Antiquary. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 139:",
"text": "Quickens-bog may at first seem to derive its name from the plant Quicken, by which, Scotticé, we understand couch-grass, dog-grass, or the Triticum repens of [Carl] Linnæus, and the common English monosyllable Bog, by which we mean, in popular language, a marsh or morass; in Latin, Palus.",
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"word": "dog grass"
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{
"word": "quackgrass"
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{
"word": "quickens"
},
{
"word": "quick grass"
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"word": "quitch"
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{
"word": "quitch grass"
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"word": "scutch grass"
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"word": "twitch"
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"word": "witchgrass"
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