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n. One opposed to vivisection [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ pl. Bons vivants [ F. bon good + vivant, p. pr. of vivre to live. ] A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. convivalis. See Convive. ] pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial. [ Obs. ] “A convival dish.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. convivari; akin to convivium a feast, convivere to live or feast together; con- + vivere to live. ] To feast together; to be convivial. [ Obs. ] “There, in the full, convive we.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conviva: cf. F. convive. ] A quest at a banquet. [ R. ] Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From L. convivium a feast; con- + vivere to live. See Victuals, and cf. Convive. ] Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person of convivial habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Convivialities The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a convivial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] Mode, or manner, of living; hence, a temporary arrangement of affairs until disputed matters can be settled. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Ovum + viviparous: cf. F. ovovivipare. ] (Biol.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., fr. qui who + vive, pres. subj. of vivre to live. ] The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: “Who comes there?” [ 1913 Webster ]

To be on the qui vive, to be on guard; to be watchful and alert, like a sentinel. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L., fr. pref. red-, re-, re- + vivus alive. ] Living again; revived; restored. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. That may be revived. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Revive. ] The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: (a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. (b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. (c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest. (d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like. (e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. (f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion. (g) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. (h) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to revivals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Revived p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving. ] [ F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid. ] 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i. ] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. “Revive the libels born to die.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Revival. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, revives. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + vivificate: cf. L. revivificare, revivificatum. Cf. Revivify. ] To revive; to recall or restore to life. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. révivification. ] 1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Old Chem.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. révivifier, L. revivificare. See Vivify. ] To cause to revive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } n. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reviviscens, p. pr. ofreviviscere to revive; pref. re- re- + viviscere, v. incho. fr. vivere to live. ] Able or disposed to revive; reviving. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. semperviva, sempervivum, fr. sempervivus ever-living; semper always + vivus living. ] (Bot.) The houseleek. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Bot.) A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. supervivere. See Survive. ] To survive; to outlive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Survive. ] 1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arhaeol. & Ethnol.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known. [ 1913 Webster ]

The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the study of manners and customs. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Survival of the fittest. (Biol.) See Natural selection, under Natural. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. survivance. ] Survivorship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To remain alive; to continue to live. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy pleasure,
Which, when no other enemy survives,
Still conquers all the conquerors. Sir J. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alike are life and death,
When life in death survives. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Survived p. pr. & vb. n. Surviving. ] [ F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over + vivere to live. See Super-, and Victuals. ] To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll assure her of
Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
In all my lands and leases whatsoever. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Survivorship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who survives; a survivor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being a survivor. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chance of survivorship, the chance that a person of a given age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship for two persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ pl. Tableaux vivants [ F. ] Same as Tableau, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖interj. [ It. ] Lit., (long) live; -- an exclamation expressing good will, well wishing, etc. -- n. The word viva, or a shout or sound made in uttering it. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A wilder burst of “vivas”. R. H. Davis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖a. & adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vívax, -acis, fr. vivere to live. See Vivid. ] 1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [ Queen Elizabeth's ] reign. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. “Vivacious nonsense.” V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light-hearted. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi*va"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vivicitas: cf. F. vivacité. ] The quality or state of being vivacious. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Liveliness; gayety. See Liveliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ OF. & F. vivandier, fr. LL. vivanda, vivenda, provisions. Cf. Viand. ] In Continental armies, esp. the French, a sutler. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. See Viand. ] In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler. [ 1913 Webster ]