requicken
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riːˈkwɪkən/
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Verb
requicken (third-person singular simple present requickens, present participle requickening, simple past and past participle requickened)
- (transitive) To quicken anew; to reanimate or give new life to.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.
References
- “requicken”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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