viv

‖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 ]