1) to produce alive, begat or bear living young
 2) to cause to live, make alive, give life
    2a) by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate
    2b) to restore to life
    2c) to give increase of life: thus of physical life
    2d) of the spirit, quickening as respects the spirit, endued with
        new and greater powers of life
 3) metaph., of seeds quickened into life, i.e. germinating, springing
    up, growing