Verb

(actuat)

To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.

* Johnson

Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.

To incite to action; to motivate.

* 1748 . HUME, David Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 11.

A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.

* Addison

Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.

Verb

(reviv)

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived . 1 Kings xvii. 22.

The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.

Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness

To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

In recent years, The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.

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To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

Hopefully this new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room

To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry

To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

revive a metal after calcination.