a. rare. [f. Gr. ζωή life + -γονος producing + -IC.] Life-producing.
1788. T. Taylor, Proclus, I. 118. The zoogonic, or vivific goddess. Ibid. (1791), Diss. Eleus. Myst., 95. This goddess … is evidently of a Saturnian and zoogonic, or intellectual and vivific rank.
