vegete, adj.
Pronunciation: Brit. /vᵻˈdʒiːt/, U.S. /vəˈdʒit/, /viˈdʒit/
Forms: 16 veget, 16 vegit, 16– vegete.
Etymology: < classical Latin vegetus vigorous, active, energetic, making active, invigorating, use as adjective of past participle of vegēre to enliven < the same Indo-European base as waker adj. Compare Middle French vegete (1555), French †vejete (1611 in Cotgrave), Portuguese végeto (1642), Italian vegeto (1694). Compare vegetous adj., vegetary adj.
Now rare.
1. Healthy, active.
a. Of a person, his or her body, etc.: fit and healthy, full of life and vigour, blooming.
In quot. 1653 in extended use.
1639 W. Cartwright Royall Slave iii. i, The veget Artist and the vigorous Poet, whose braines are full and forging still.
1653 G. Ashwell Fides Apostolica 189 The Nicene Creed,..by this meanes become vegete and growen, was afterwards used in the Greeke Church.
1670 E. Maynwaring Vita Sana vii. 85 Active stirring people are..more vegete and lively in spirit.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir Dudley North & Rev. John North 268 His Face was always tincted with a fresh Colour, and his Looks vegete and sanguine.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 361 That animal..was supposed to renew its life, and to become..vegete and fresh.
1847 J. Wright Anacreontic Poems 124 The structor vegete, and so clever..The hand of time will quick dissever.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 380 If I forgot that ample and vegete countenance of Mr. R——.
1903 J. H. Stirling Categories iii. 84 It [sc gas] must have been pregnant, seminally pregnant, with illimitably more than even the vegete young Adam.
†b. Of age, condition, etc.: flourishing, in good form, healthy. Obs.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule of Holy Dying iv. §1 He had lived an healthful and vegete Age till his last sickness.
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 401 That florid Vegete vigorous condition which ought to be in the less Vegete, or the Valetudinary state of Bodies.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 230 He that is of a firm habit of body, and has a vegete heat.
1703 Athenian Oracle I. 1 The Soul of an Infant..is in as great perfection, both as to power and act, in the Infancy of the Body, as in its vegete and perfect Man-hood.
1787 T. Harmer Observ. IV. vii. 47 What he says of gray-headedness being consistent with very vegete and unailing old-age is very just.
1808 Universal Mag. June 482/1 By attention to this [sc. the health of the alimentary canal] we may enjoy a vegete old age.
c. Of the mind, mental faculties, etc.: alert, lively, active.
1660 R. South Serm. (1715) IV. i. 21 A well radicated Habit, in a lively, vegete Faculty, is like an Apple of Gold in a Picture of Silver.
1662 R. South Serm. (1697) I. 55 The understanding.was vegete, quick, and lively.
1727 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead I. iii. 84 Before the organical Construction of the Body is impair'd, and the Spirits are vegete and vigorous.
1769 J. Granger Biogr. Hist. Eng. I. 384 His body was firm and erect, and his faculties lively and vegete.
1846 J. Hamilton Mt. Olives v. 126 If you would possess such a mind you must keep it fresh and vegete and lifesome by secret prayer.
1906 Providence Med. Jrnl. 7 132 It is difficult to connect your honored guest's vegete and alert personality with the idea of such an extended professional career.
†2. Bright, lively, glittering Obs. rare—1.
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iv. iii. 67 In troth a stone of lustre, I assure you It darts a pretty light, a veget spark.
†3. Of plants or their parts: healthy, vigorous; growing strongly or promoting active growth. Obs.
1655 B. W. in S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 106 This be a very necessary management in taller Plants, and serves to make them much more vegete and lusty.
1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2069 Whether the Juyce of Trees, whil'st alive and vegete, can properly be said.to descend.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 429 Active in sending the vegete juices through the vessels of all plants.
1800 E. Darwin Phytologia ix. iii. 167 Because the lower leaf dies, and the sweet juice is absorbed, as the upper leaf becomes vegete.
Derivatives
†vegeteness n. Obs. rare
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World i. xxxi. 49 The like Vegeteness and sufficiency, both in body and mind..is sometimes granted to extremity of Age.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II., Vegeteness, Liveliness, Quickness, Soundness, the Quality of having a growing Life.
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