quicken

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.

   “[…] Italy had quickened Cecil, not to tolerance, but to irritation. He saw that the local society was narrow, but, instead of saying, "Does this very much matter?" he rebelled, and tried to substitute for it the society he called broad.”

2. fiil To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).

   “This quicken'd my Reſolution to reſtore her Money, and not only ſo, but I reſolv'd I would give her ſomething over and above her Loſs; […]”

3. fiil To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
4. fiil To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.

   “Whoſoever will goo about to ſave his lyfe⸝ shall looſe it: And whoſoever ſhall looſe his life⸝ ſhall quycken it.”

5. fiil To make or help (something) to burn.

   “[…] she Quickened the fire and laid the board, […]”

6. fiil To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.

   “Coole Violets, and Orpine growing ſtill, Embathed Balme, and chearfull Galingale, Freſh Coſtmarie, and breathfull Camomill, Poppie, and drink-quickning Setuale, […]”

7. fiil Of a pregnant woman: to be in the state of reaching the stage of pregnancy at which the movements of the foetus are first felt.
8. fiil To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.

   “Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst And exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay Quickening in darkness, till a voice that day Cried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.”

9. fiil To grow bright; to brighten.

   “The fair each moment riſes in her charms, Repairs her ſmiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face; Sees by degrees a purer bluſh ariſe, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.”

10. fiil Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
11. fiil Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.

    “[…] about a month ago she [Lady Castlemaine] quickened at my Lord Gerard's at dinner, and cried out that she was undone; and all the lords and men were fain to quit the room, and women called to help her.”

12. fiil To give life; to make alive.
13. fiil To come back to life, to receive life.

    “O I, as ſummers flies, are in the ſhambles, That quicken euen with blovving: […]”

14. fiil To inspire or stimulate.
15. fiil To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.

    “For you may ſooner by Imagination, quicken or ſlacke a Motion, than raiſe or ceaſe it; As it is eaſier to make a Dog goe ſlower, than to make him ſtand ſtill that he may not runne.”

16. fiil To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper, or (an incline) steeper.

    “to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced”

17. fiil To become quicker or faster.

    “My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.”

18. fiil To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
19. isim In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).

    “[…] Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken at the edges and small green haws to show.”

20. isim Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.

    “Quickens-bog may at first seem to derive its name from the plant Quicken, by which, Scotticé, we understand couch-grass, dog-grass, or the Triticum repens of [Carl] Linnæus, and the common English monosyllable Bog, by which we mean, in popular language, a marsh or morass; in Latin, Palus.”