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VITALIZATION.
Merging Insensibly into next.
1844 H. H. Wilson Brit. India. III. 111. ix. 563 The dependance
of ministerial vitality upon parliamenUry majorities.
^^ ^ ^^' ^^ALE Disc, Spec. Occas. viii, 275 There is terrible
vitality both in truth and error. 1874 L. Stephen
Hours in Library I. nj The vitality of Pope's writings, or
at least of certain fragments of them, is remarkable.
3. Jig. Active force or po)ver ; mental or physical
vigour ; activity, animation, liveliness.
Common from c i860.
1858 O. W. HoLMES^K/. Break/.-t. xii. no Which shows
that their minds are in a state of diminished vitality, i860
Motley Nttherl. I. ii. 45 Such was the intense vitality of
the B&rnese prince. 1869 Tozer High!. Turkey I. 358 A
country whose vitality is strong, and where the administrative
power is active and vigorous. 1884 Manch. Exam.
9 May 5/4 To the strong vitality which distinguishes his
race, he united intellectual power of the highest order.
4. With a and pi. Something possessed of vital
force. K\%ofig.
1851 Carlvlk Sterling 11. iii, He was full of bright speech
and ar^ment; radiant with arrowy vitalities. 1853 Kane
GrinneU Exp. v. {1856) 36 There was no vegetation to
define Us course, not even the green conferva, that obscure
vitahty, which follows water at home. iSgS Meredith
OdesEr Hist. 91 Shall, then, the great vitality, France,
Signal the backward step once more?
Vitaliza'tion. Also -iaation. [f. Vitalize
V. + -ATio.v.] The action or process of vitalizing,
or the state of being vitalized ; an instance of this.
1846 J. Hudson in Rep. ^ Papers Bot. (Ray Soc.) 306
The phenomenon of the vitalization of cells is brought
about only by an excessive endosmose or nutrition. 1891
T. Hakdv Tess xxxvi. Her love.. might result in vitalisations
that would inflict upon others what she had bewailed
as a misfortune to herself, a l^i F. W. H. Myers Human
Persimality (1003) I. p. xxxiv. An increased subliminal
vitalization of the organism.
Vitalise (vai-tabiz), V. Also 9 -ise. [f.
Vital a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To give life or animation to (the body,
etc.) ; to endow with vital force or principle.
1678 CupwoRTH tntell. Syst. i. v. 784 By the Idol of the
soul Plotinus seems to mean an airy or spirituous Body,
auickned and vitalized by the soul, adhering to it after
eath. 1813 T. Bi;sbv Lucretius I. 111. 797 Seeds which
now the body vitalise. 1846 J. Hudson in Rep. /j Papers
Bot. (Ray Soc.) 305 How does it happen that a cell is so
vitalized as to be able to produce a phyton! 1868 Pearo
IVater-farm. xi. 113 Every year.. millions of eggs are
regularly vilalbed and transmitted over the ContineDt.
trans/. 1858 J. H BtNNET Nutrition ii. 43 The intellectual
man .who has vitalized . . his brain by brain exercise.
b. Path. To excite activity in (an tilcer, etc.).
1884 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat ^ Nose II. 277 For the
purpose.. of 'vitalizing ' the borders of an indolent ulcer
within the nasal cavity.
2. fig. To make living or active ; to infuse vitality
or vigour into (something) ; to animate.
1805 Foster Ess. i. iv. 50 A malignant quality appears
viulized into a powerful demon, a 1853 Robertson Lect.
(1859) 124 What he wanted was to vitalize the system— to
throw into it not a Jewish, hut a Christian feeling. 1873
SvMONDS Grk. Poets V. Ill The Greek genius was endowed
with the faculty of distinguishing, difl^erentiating, vitalizing,
what the Oriental nations left hazy and confused and inert.
b. To put life into (a literary or artistic conception)
; to present or depict in a lifelike manner.
1884 Athensuin 8 March 319/3 Lord Tennyson, .always
allows himself room not only to vitalize his characters, but
to let them grow. 1^07 Ibid. 16 March 313/1 He is not an
artist. He cannot vitalize his material
Hence Vi-talized //)/. a.
1843 R. J. Graved Sy^t. Clin. Med. xiviL 350 The seminal
fluid of the male is a highly vitalized product, 1868 Peard
lyater./arnt. xiii. 127 1 he largest quantity of this vitalised
seed was sown in the rivers of France. 1874 H. R. Reynolds
John B.ipt.vui. 5o5_Those who., regard Christianity
as an etherealized or vitalized morality.
tally.
»8y» Cent. Diet. s,v., The animal was vitally hit or hurt.
vitals {y^v\^\%\ sb. pL [ad. L. vitdlia^ neut.
pi. of vitaiisy or directly f. Vital a.]
1. Those parts or organs of the body, esp. the
human body, essential to life, or upon which life
depends ; the vital parts.
Usually as a vagueor general term, but sometimesapplied
specifically to the brain, heart, lungs, and liver.
For the phr. stop my vitals, see Stap v. and Stop v. 9 c.
a 1610 Healev Cebes (1636) 134 Now hecpurgeth away
the causes and nutriment of the maladie, and then corroborates
the vitals. 1641 Tatham Distracted State iv. i.
(1651) 24, I feel my vitals fail me. 1690 C. Nesse O. f( N.
Test. I. 52 Like the wound in the heel, far from the vitals,
Ihe head or heart. 1708 Swift Sacratn. Tests Wks. 1755
II. I. 125 If.. you think a poultice made of our vitals will
give it any ease, speak the word, vj^o-^x H. Brooke Tvi*?/
o/Qual, (1809) III, 117 The weapon has missed your vitals.
1791 CowpER^rt[j'w. IX. 347 Me, then, my courage prompted
to approach The monster.. And to transfix him where the
vitals wrap The liver. x86z Palf.y Aeschylus (ed. 2) Ckoeph.
264 note. The notion in the mind of the speaker is that of a
cold chill at the vitals. 1897 Marv Kingsley W. Afnca
246 A miscellaneous collection of bits of broken iron pots
and lumps of lead frisking among their vitals.
b. fig. or in fig. context.
1641 Milton Reform. 11. 64 Now heare how they
(i.e. the prelates] strike at the very heart and vitals- [of
monarchy]. 1671 Trencmfield Cap Gray Hairs (1688) 32
The dainty Tooths of some corroding so far into their
estates, as to reach the very vitals. 17x9 W. Wood Surv.
Trade 56 The truest Sign of our Vitals not being tainted,
and that we are not wounded in any Noble Part, but go on
increasing in Trade. 1790 Burke Fr. Rev. 350 Such immense
sums, drawn from the vitals of all France. x8os-i3
in Hentham Ration, yudic. Evid. (1827) V. 536 The very life
and vitals of the cause lies in secreting the evidence. 1853
Merivale Rom. Rep. i. (1867) 7 Tiberius. .continued to
brood over the plague-spot he had discovered in the vitals
of his country, x868 Farrar Seekers i. iii. (1875) 37Tohave
fastened upon the very vitals of the national existence.
2. transf. Parts or features essentially necessary
to something; essential points, essentials.
1657 J. Watts VineL Ck. Eng. 30 So long as the vitals and
fundamentals of faith and truth abide. 1657-8 in Burton's
Diary (1828) II. 433 If the vitals were preserved, I should
not differ for the rcsL 1689 Myst. Iniq. 9 Tho all English
Protestants have ever been at an Accord in all the
Essentials and Vitals of Religion. 170* C. Mather Magn.
Chr. III. II. xxviii. (1852) 504 Of pernicious consequence to
the very vitals of religion. 1887 Pall Mall G. 4 May ii/i
When the Pamellite leaders approached the vitals of the
Vi'talizer. [f. prec. + -er.] One who or that
which vitalizes.
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