*viva*

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

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 ]

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 ]

‖ 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 ]

‖n. [ F., p. pr., living. ] In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. E. Vivariums L. Vivaria [ L., fr. vivarius belonging to living creatures, fr. vivus alive, living. See Vivid. ] A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Vivaries A vivarium. “That . . . vivary of fowls and beasts.” Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]