To give strength or force to; to give active vigor to.--Webster. To excite action.--Todd. This word is not found in Johnson's Dictionary, and is of modern origin. Mr. Pickering says, the use of it in the British Spy, published in Virginia, was censured in the Monthly Anthology, as unauthorized.
Instead of aiding and energizing the police of the college.--British Spy.
Bishop Horsley uses the word energizing; also Harris:
As all energies are attributes, they have reference, of course, to certain energizing substances.--Harris, Hermes, i. 9.