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|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|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|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.