different between vitality vs enquicken

English

Etymology

vital +? -ity, from Middle French vitalité, from Latin vitalitas (“vital force, life”), from vitalis (“vital”); see vital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va??tæl?ti/, /va??tæl?ti/

Noun

vitality (countable and uncountable, plural vitalities)

1. The capacity to live and develop.
2. Energy or vigour.
3. That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

Related terms

• devive
• revive
• survive
• viable
• vim and vigor
• vital
• vivid
• vitalism

Translations

Further reading

• vitality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vitality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From en- +? quicken.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?kw?k??n/

Verb

enquicken (third-person singular simple present enquickens, present participle enquickening, simple past and past participle enquickened)

1. (rare) Imbue with divine vitality.
   • circa 1623–1635, Dr. John Mayer D.D., Commentary on the Short Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, etc., page 7:

     How much more ought we, WITH OUR BLESSED MOTHER THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AT ALL CHASTENINGS [CHRISTENINGS] PRESUME that Sacramental grace doth like a soul enquicken the body of the outward element, and receive those for our true fellow-members of Christ, who have been made partakers of the same laver of regeneration?

   • Flash quickening Flames of Glory in mine eye
     

     T’enquicken my dull Spirits, drunke with dreams
     

     Of Melancholy…

   •     Ride on these Rayes into my bosom’s till
     

     And make thy Glory mine affections Charm.
     

         Thy rapid flames my Love enquicken will.
     

         Then I in Glories Tower thy Praise will sing
     

         On my Shoshannim tun’d on ev’ry string.