Crossword-Solution: ANIMATIVE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

But of all these principles, the _Sun_ was looked up to as the grand omnipotent nucleus, whose all-vivifying power is the vital and sole source of animative and vegetative existence upon this globe--the glorious fountain out of which springs all that man ever has, or ever can call good, and as such, the only proper object of the homage and adoration of mankind.

The Christ, or Savior of the vernal equinox ascends into the Heaven of summer, and saves, or recreates the organised existences of this globe, by his genial and animative power; whereas the Christ of the autumnal _Cross_ descends gradually to the winter solstice, and is said, therefore, to descend into _Hell_, that is, to enter the signs and constellations of winter, which, being antagonistic to those of summer, are emblematical of evil.