Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.

* 1871 , , Pink and White Tyranny , ch. 22:

[S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.

(by extension) Energetic, vigorous.

* 1862 , , North America , ch. 6:

Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck.

* 1908 , , Salthaven , ch. 19:

Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt.

* 2014 April 4, Zachary Woolfe, " Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out," New York Times (retrieved 12 May 2014):

But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis.

Adjective

(en-adj)

Existing or occurring at the moment.

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Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.

* Arbuthnot

That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.

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(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.

* Gower

Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.

* Tennyson

To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.