From the ArcaMax Publishing, Vocabulary Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/vocabulary/s-367521-959977
vivify \VIV-uh-fy\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To endue with life; to make
alive; to animate. 2 : To make more lively or intense.
"Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have
suffered in your own person the thing, which the words try to
describe." -- Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
Vivify comes from French vivifier, from Late Latin vivificare, from
Latin vivus, alive.