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VEGETATED.
appeared from the distance to be well vegetated. 189a Pall
MallG. 25 Nov. 6/1 New Amsterdam . . is densely vegetated,
and consequently more valuable.
Hence Ve'getated ///. a. ; Ve-getating vbl. sb.
1775 Ash, Vegetating, the state or act of growing like
plants. 1804-ao Blake Jems. To Deists, Your Greek Philosophy,
which is a remnant of Druidism, teaches that Man is
righteous in his Vegetated Spectre. 1884 E. P. Roe Nat,
Ser. Story ii. Frequent removal from one part of the country
to another prevents anything like vegetating.
Ve-GTetating, ppl. a, [f. prec. + -ing 2.]
1. Characterized by, associated with, or causing
vegetation.
1704 Ray Creation (ed. 4) i. 95 It's not unlikely, that the
Rain-water may be endued with some vegetating or prolifick
Vertue. 1768 Phil. Trans. LVIIl. 78 Seeds in a vegetating
state. X794 R. J. Sullivan View Nat. II. 48 The vegeuting
power which is operating during the whole year in evergreens.
1800 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 265/1 Root fleshy,.. soon
after taken out of the earth becomes highly scented, which
it retains as long as in a vegetating state.
2. Exhibiting vegetation or growth.
1783 Justamond tr. Raynals Hist. Indies VI. 313 Six
vems of vegetating earth, which were in process of time
discovered, received sugar canes. X796 Withering Brit.
Plants(,ed. 3) II. 152 Mr. Gough informs me that vegetatirig
germs of the viviparous variety,, .planted in his garden in
the year 1790, still continue viviparous. 1801 FarTner's
Mag. April 128 Sheep may occasionally be allowed to take
a walk over the fallow, to pick up any vegetating weeds or
grass roots that may come in their way. 188a Vines tr.
Sachs's Bot. 630 The Lemnaceae consist of small branched
leafless floating vegetating bodies.
Vegetation (ved.:5rt/''Jan). Also 6 vegitacion,
7-8 -tion. [ad. (late and) med.L. vegetatio^
f. vegetdre Vegetate v. So F. vigitatiotit It.
vcgetazione^ Sp. vegetacion^ Pg. vegetofao.
The definitions 'a comforting, making strong', etc., in
Cockeram {1623) and Blount (1656) are merely copied from
Cooper's explanation oivegetatio in Apuleius.]
L Abstract senses,
1. The action of vegetating or growing ; the
faculty, process, or phenomena of growth and
development as possessed by certain organic sub-
vegetal activity or property.
stances ;
a. In general use.
1564 J. Dav ir. Martyr s Comm. Judges xiii. 312 To cate,
is not onely to chawe the meate, . .but moreouer to conuert
it into the substawnce of hys bodye, by concoction thoroughc
the power of vegitacion. 1594 Plat Je^vell-hc. w. 11 Salt.
causeth the vegetation, perfection, maturitie, and the whole
good that ts contained in euery thing that nourisheth. 1605
TtMHE Quersit. I. xiii. 5;^ A most pure and perfect body,
replenished with vital spirits, and full of vegetation. _ 1768
Pennant Brit. Zool. I. Pref. 10 Through every species of
animal life, ..to that point where sense is almost extinct, and
vegetation commences. 1813 Sir H. Davy Agric. Cheni.
(1814) 7 The phenomena of vegetation must be considered
as an important branch of the science of organized Nature.
Jig. «7S5 Young Centaur vL Wks. 1757 IV. aSi The light
of God's countenance is the sun of the human soul, whence
all its vegetation of real felicity.
fb. Of the soul. Obi. (Cf. Vegetative a. i a.)
1613 PuacHAS Pilgrimage (1614) 16 One soul hath those
three essentiall faculties of Vnderstanding, Will, and
Memorie. or (as others) of Vegetation, Sense, and Reason.
i6ao T. Granger Div. Logike 55 Sence, and vegetation is
an effect by emanation of the soule.
c. Of plants or seeds, f Also, vegetative power
(quot, iws).
1661 Sia K. DiGBY (title), A Discourse concerning the
Vegetation of Plants. 1665 Sir T. Hkrbert Trav. {1677)
333 The root where the sap lies constantly conveying vegetation
to the tree in those warm Regions. 1707 Curios, in
Hush. 4- Card. 28 The Operations of each Plant, which are
Nutrition, Augmentation and Propagation,, .we. .express by
the single Word Vegetation, which in Effect includes them
all. i^ J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. vii. (176s) 14 The Seed, .is
a deciduous Part of the Vegetable, the Rudiment of a new
one. quickened for Vegetation by the Sprinkling of the
Pollen. 1789 Mks. Piozzi Journ. France II. In these
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countries vegetation is so rapid, that every thing makes
haste to come and more to go. 1813 Bakewell Introd. Geol.
(1815) 250 The vegetation of perennial grasses in the spring
is at least a fortnight sooner on lime*stone and sandy soils
..than on clayey. i8s3RoBrKrsoN 5^r/«. Ser. iii. (1872) iii.
31 Seeds and germs . . incapable of vegetation in the unkindly
climate of their birth. 1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's
Phofter. 561 The intercellular air.spaces of the cortical
parenchyma are in open communication with the external
air at the time of active vegetation.
t d. Of inorganic substances. Obs,
1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 759 They are prepossest with an
opinion against the vegetation of all Stones. 1748 Earthquake
Peru Pref. 11 As a Proof of the quick Ve^itation of
Silver. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. 33 This is not a
place for an inquiry into tbc seeming vegetation of those
stony substances.
t 2. An act or instance of vegetating ; a stage in
plant growth or development. Obs.
1671 Grew /l«tf/. Pl.^ Idea {16^-2) i The Method of Nature
her self, in her continued Scries of Vegetations ; proceeding
from the Seed sown, to the formation of the Root.
+ 3. transf. The production of a plant-like formation.
Obs. (Cf. 5 b.)
1707 Curios, in Husb. 4- Card. 305 The Artificial Vegetation
of Silver, commonly called Diana's Tree. 18*3 Ure
Did. Chem. s.v.. The Influence of the Air and Light upon
the Vegetation of Salts. 184a Francis Did. Arts, Vegetation
of Salts, a curious phenomena \sic\, which takes place
when strong solutions of metallic salts are left in glass,
earthenware, or other vessels.
4. fig. Existence similar or comparable to that of
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a vegetable ; dull, empty, or stagnant life spent in
retirement or seclusion.
1797 Godwin Enquirer 1. xiii. 114 His state is rather a
state of vegetation. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Dau. i. xi. In
this state of vegetation he remained until about ten o'clock,
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xvi. 390 Hedouville
..went to spend a life of mere vegetation in Spain. i88a Miss
Braddon Mt.'RoyalW. iv. 53 You can't expect to find much
difference in me after three years' vegetation in CornwalL
n. Concrete senses.
a plant.
5. fa. A vegetable form or growth ;
1683 Tryon IVay to Health 518 At which times all Vegitations
are in their flourishing state. 1691 — IVisd. Dictates
no The pleasant Ferment, .of the Stomach can with much
more facility, .disgest Vegitations, than Flesh or Fish. 1707
CuHos. in Husb,