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quickened

quickened (adj.):

I. With life (Lit. and Fig.): vīvātus (an old word): used esp. with pŏtestas: the q. powers of body and soul, etc., Denique corporis atque animi vivata potestas, Inter se conjuncta, valent, vitaque fruuntur, Lucr. 3, 557.

II. With energy: vīvĭdus (full of life and energy): q. energy of soul, v. vis animi, Lucr. 1, 72: q. heroism in war, bello v. virtus, Virg. Aen. 5, 754.

III. With speed. Expr. all three senses by particips. of verbs under TO QUICKEN: esp. cĭtātus, concĭtātus. Phr.: with q.'d breath (panting): sublimi fugies anhelitu, Hor. Od. 1, 15, 31.

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