quicken

QUICKEN, verb transitive quik'n.1. 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.2. 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 2:1.3. To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.4. To sharpen; to give keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires.5. To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Psalms 119:25.QUICKEN, verb intransitive quik'n.1. To become alive.The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.2. To move with rapidity or activity.And keener lightning quickens in her eye