galvanic

adj

Etymology: From French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique.

1. Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.

   “[S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.”

2. Energetic; vigorous.

   “Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck.”

   “Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt.”

3. Of a current that is not alternating, as opposed to faradic.

   “Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.”