ppl. a. [f. QUICKEN v. + -ED1.] Made living or quick; animated, stimulated; hastened, accelerated; etc.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., iii. 208. Not from the quick’ned mine.

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1660.  Character of Italy, To Rdr. A iv. Some Squeamish Zealot, who … is become a meer Lump of quickened Care.

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1805.  Southey, Madoc in Aztlan, i. His blood Flow’d from its quicken’d spring.

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1894.  H. Drummond, Ascent Man, 389. Courtship, with its vivid perceptions and quickened emotions.

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