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IMG:content-0100.png:[blocks in formation] A. Intransitive : 1. To become alive; to receive life. eri "These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee." Shakesp. Lear, iii. 7. 2. To give life; to vivify. ( John vi. 63.) 3. To be or have advanced to that stage of pregnancy in which the child gives indications of life; to give signs of life in the womb (said of either the mother or the child. The motion of the foetus usually makes itself felt about the eighteenth week of pregnancy.). 4. To move with rapidity or quickne ; to increase in speed; as, His pulse quickened . B. Transitive : 1. To make alive; to vivify, to revive, to resuscitate; to give life to. "To breathe life into a stone, quicken a rock." Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1. 2. To give spiritual life to. "You hath he quickened who were dead in trespa es and sins."-Ephesians ii. 1. 3. To revive, to reinvigorate, to cheer, to refresh. "Music and poesy use, to quicken you." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew , i. 1. 4. To hasten, to accelerate; to cause to move with greater speed; as, He quickened his pace. 5. To sharpen, to stimulate; to make more sharp or acute; as, to quicken the appetite.