Category:Vigor

Vig"or, n. Etym: [oe. vigour, vigor, of. vigor, vigur, vigour, f. Vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or strong. See Vegetable, vigil.]

1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, Physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy. The vigor of this arm was never vain. Dryden.

2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature Or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.

3. Strength; efficacy; potency. But in the fruithful earth. . . His beams, unactive else, their Vigor find. Milton.

Note: vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or The power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive Strength, or strength to endure.

Vigor Vig"or, v. t.

Defn: to invigorate. [obs.] Feltham.