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VEGETATIVELY.
All Vegetative Foods are not only wliolsom, but easily
concocted.
6. = Vegetable a, 3.
1677 Plot (>.r/I>n/jA. 175 Having done with the Vegetative,
I proceed to the Animal Kingdom. 1695 Ld. Prkston
B^tk. III. 144, '' casting an E>-e upon the Vegetative
World, consider Herbs and Trees. 17M Wollaston Reitg.
Nmi. ix. ao9, I think 1 may be sure that neither lifeless
muter, nor the vegetative tribe,., have any reflex thoughts.
i77ir-id. 237 This girl led a vegetative
Ufc, but learnt to recognize those around her.
B. sif. fl. Vegetative faculty or power, rare.
t6o5 TiMME QMcrsit. i. xiv. 63 In vegetables there were
only those vegetatiues ; which, in beastes, beside the vegetaticxi
which they retain, .. become also sensatiue.
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development but devoid of sensation and thought
2. An organic body capable of growth and
ft vegetable or plant. Obs*
1634 W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. i. vi, Having related
unto you the., nature of the Soile, with his vegetatives, and
other commodities, a 1668 Feltham Resolves i. xxviii.
(1677) 152 Even Plants, which are but Vegetatives, will not
grow in Caues, where the. .Air is barred from them. 1668
Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 93 We live rather the Life of
Vegetatives or Sensitives . . than the lives of reasonable men.
171a E. CooKE Voy. S. Sea 210 Having run over the living
Creatures and Vegetatives. 1764 in loM ^c/. //isf. MSS.
Comm. App. 1. 372 We are vegetatives formed byeducation.
Hence Ve-ffetatively adv.^ Vegetativeness.
x886 EncycL Brit. XX. 431/2 In some instances the one
generation may spring *vegetatively from the other without
the intervention of a spore. 1905 Brit. Med. JmL 25 Feb.
442 They develop into one of the three following forms all
of which can reproduce themselves vegetatively. 1717
Bailev (vol 1 1),* yege/ativeness, a vegetative Quality. 1889
Geddes & Thomson EvoI, Sex 48 Superior constitutional
vegelativeness in the females [of Lychnis),
Vegete (v/d^rt), a. Now rare. Also 7 veget,
vegit. [ad. L. vegetus^ f. vegere to be active or
lively. Cf. It. and Pg. vegcto, obs. F. vejete
(Cotgr.).]
L Healthy and active ; flourishing in respect of
health and vigour : a. Of persons, the body, etc.
1639 W. Cartwright Roy. Slave m. i, The veget Artist
and the vigorous Poet, whose braines are full and forging
still. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemi. i. 22 Even her body
was made aery and vegete. 1670 Maynwarince Vita Sana
viL 85 Active stirring people are,. more vegete and lively
in spirit, a 1734 North Lives (1826) III. 350 His face was
always tinted with a fresh colour, and his looks vegete and
sanguine. 1774 J. Bryant Mythol. II. 361 That animal..
was supposed to renew its life, and to become, .vegete and
fresh. 1870 Lowell Study Wind. 380 If I forgot that
ample and vegete countenance of Mr. R—
D. Of age, condition, etc.
X651 Jer. Taylor Holy Dying iv. § i He had lived an
healthful and vegete .\ge till liis last sickness. 1665 Needham
Med. Afedicinx 401 That florid Vegete vigorous condition
which ought to be in the less Vegete, or the Valetudinary
state of Bodies. 1684. tr. Bottet's Merc. Compit.
VI. 230 He that is of a firm habit of body, and has a vegete
heat.
o. Of the faculties, mind, etc.
x66o South Serm. (1727) IV. i. 21 A well radicated habit,
in a lively, vegete Faculty, is like an Apple of Gold in a
Picture of Silver. i66« Ibid. (1697) 1 . 55 The understanding
. . was vegete, quick, and lively, iw Earbery tr. Burnefs
St. Dead 84 Before the organical Construction of the Body
is impair'd, and the Spirits are vegete and vigorous. 1769
Granger Siogr. Hist. Eng. {t&o^) II. 155 His body was firm
and erect, and his faculties lively and vegete. 1846 J.
Hamilton Mount Olives v, 126 If you would possess such
a mind you must keep it fresh and vegete and lifesome by
secret prayer.
2. Of plants or their parts : Healthy, vigorous ;
growing strongly or promoting active growth.
1651 R. Child in HartUb's Legacy (1655) 106 This be
a very necessary management in taller Plants, and serves to
make them much more vegete and lusty. 1670 PkH. Trans.
V, 2069 Whether the Juyce of Trees, whil'st alive and vegete,
can properly be said, .to descend. 1756 Amorv Buncle {.iZ-z^
\\. 120 Active in sending the vegete juices through the
vessels of all plants. 1794-6 E. Darwin Zoon, (1801) \. 137
There are many trees,whose wholeinternal wood is perished,
and yet the branches are vegete and healthy. z8oo — Phytol.
167 Because the lower leaf dies, and the sweet juice is
absorbed, as the upper leaf becomes vegete.
transf. t6si Ashwell Eides Apost. i8g The Nicene Creed,
. . by this meanes become vegete and growen, was afterwards
used in the Greeke Church.
1 3. Lively, bright. 06s.-^
01643 Cartwright Ordinary iv. iii. In troth a stone of
lustre, I assure you It darts a pretty light, a veget spark.
Hence Vecfe'teness.
1727 Bailev (vol. II), Vegetetiess, Liveliness, Quickness,
Soundness, the Quality of having a growing Life,
fVe'ffetist. nonce-word, [Irreg. f. Veoet-able
+ -I8T.J One who is concerned with the growth or
cultivation of vegetable products.
1778 {W. H. Marshall] Minutes Agric. 7 Sept. 1775, The
Vegetbt, perhaps, more than any other man, is subject to the
power, .of the elements. Ibid.,Digeit 25 The Vegetist ought
never to lose sight of this maxim.
76
tVegetity. Obs.-^ in 7 vegititie. [Irreg. f.
Veget-ATE v* + -ity.] Vegetative power or quality.
But perhaps a misprint for vegitivitie.
i6a8 T. Sfencek Logick 43 The soule of Peter hath the
same rationalitie with all other mens soules: no singular
tree differs from other trees in vegititie.
Vegetive (ved^/tiv), a. and sb. Also 6 vegeetyve,
7 vegitiue. [Reduced form of Vegetative
a.t after L. vegel-are or veget-us^
A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of,
vegetables or plants ; = Vegetative a, 2.
1516 St. Papers Hen. Vlll, VI. 534 The oolde tre for lakk
of vegeetyve sprytis maye nott opteeyne perfect rote fastnesse.
1573 Tusser Husb, (1878) 123 Not rent off, but cut
off, ripe beane with a knife, for hindering stalke of hir veget-
iue life. 1605 Sylvester Du Bartas n. iii. Vocation 1354
The pleasant Soyl . . is all dry'd and dead ; Voyd of all force,
vital!, or vegetive. 1631 W. Saltonstall Pict, Loquent. F ii,
His knowledge consists in the vegetive nature of Plants.
1675 J. Smith Chr. Relig, App. u. 15 Man had not Power so
much as over the green Herb, to deprive it of its Vegetive
Life;.. but by God's Donation.
1830 CoLEKiDGE Church