Webster's Dictionary 1828

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VITRIOLIZING

VIT'RIOLIZING, [See Vitriolating.]

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VITULINE

VIT'ULINE, adjective [Latin vitulinus.] Belonging to a calf, or to veal.

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VITUPERABLE

VITU'PERABLE, adjective [See Vituperate.]Blameworthy; censurable. [Not used.]

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VITUPERATE

VITU'PERATE, verb transitive [Latin vitupero.] To blame; to censure. [Little used.]

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VITUPERATION

VITUPERA'TION, noun [Latin vituperatio.] Blame; censure. [Little used.]

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VITUPERATIVE

VITU'PERATIVE, adjective Uttering or writing censure; containing censure.

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VIVACIOUS

VIVA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin vivax, from vivo, to live.]1. Lively; active; sprightly in temper or conduct.2. Long lived. [Not in use.]3. Having vigorous powers of life; as vivac...

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VIVACIOUSNESS

VIVA'CIOUSNESS, noun1. Activity; liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; vivacity.2. Power of living; also, long life. [Not in use.]

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VIVACITY

VIVAC'ITY, noun [Latin vivacitas.]1. Liveliness; sprightliness of temper or behavior; as a lady of great vivacity2. Air of life and activity; as vivacity of countenance.3. Life;...

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VIVARY

VI'VARY, noun [Latin vivarium, from vivo, to live.]A warren; a place for keeping living animals, as a pond, a park, etc.Viva voce, [Latin] by word of mouth; as, to vote viva voce.

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VIVE

VIVE, adjective [Latin vivus.] Lively; forcible. [Not in use.]

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VIVELY

VI'VELY, adverb In a lively manner. [Not used.]

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VIVENCY

VI'VENCY, noun [Latin vivens, from vivo.] Manner of supporting life or vegetation. [Not in use.]

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VIVES

VIVES, noun A disease of animals, particularly of horses, seated in the glads under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

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VIVIANITE

VIV'IANITE, noun A phosphate of iron, of various shades of blue and green.

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VIVID

VIV'ID, adjective [Latin vividus, from vivo, to live.]1. Lively; sprightly; active.Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly vivid faculties to exert themselves in.2. Lively; sprigh...

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VIVIDLY

VIV'IDLY, adverb1. With life; with strength.Sensitive objects affect a man much more vividly than those which affect only his mind.2. With brightness; in bright colors.3. In glo...

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VIVIDNESS

VIV'IDNESS, noun1. Life; strength; sprightliness.2. Strength of coloring; brightness.

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VIVIFIC

VIVIF'IC,VIVIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin vivificus. See Vivify.] Giving life; reviving; enlivening.

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VIVIFICATE

VIV'IFICATE, verb transitive [Latin vivifico, vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]1. to give life to; to animate. [See Vivify.]2. In chimistry, to recover from such a change of fo...

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VIVIFICATION

VIVIFICA'TION, noun1. The act of giving life; revival.2. Among chimists, the act of giving new luster, force and vigor; as the vivification of mercury.

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VIVIFICATIVE

VIV'IFICATIVE, adjective Able to animate or give life.

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VIVIFIED

VIV'IFIED, participle passive revived; endued with life.

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VIVIFY

VIV'IFY, verb transitive [Latin vivfico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]To endue with life; to animate; to make to be living.Sitting on eggs doth vivify not nourish.

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VIVIFYING

VIV'IFYING, participle present tense enduing with life; communicating life to.

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VIVIPAROUS

VIVIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin vivus, alive, and pario, to bear.]1. Producing young in a living state, as all mammifers; as distinguished from oviparous, producing eggs, as fowls...

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VIXEN

VIX'EN, noun [vixen is a she fox, or a fox's cub.A froward, turbulent, quarrelsome woman.