QUICKEN Copy link • QUICKENTo accelerate, accelerare aliquid; maturare aliquid, or with infinitive; praecipitare aliquid. [SYN. in ACCELERATE.] . To make alive, animare (poetically, also figuratively): vivificare (late, Tert.). To excite, excitare, incitare; aliquem alacriorem ad aliquid efficere (e.g., ad pugnandum); alicujus animum incitare: to be quickened, accedit mihi animus; alacriorem fieri; magna alacritas studiumque alicujus rei magnum alicui injectum est: ☞ not animi, except as = ferociorem reddi (Tac., Germ., 29, 3).