Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Vigor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vigor \Vig"or\, v. t.
To invigorate. [Obs.] --Feltham.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vigor \Vig"or\, n. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vigor
n 1: an exertion of force; "he plays tennis with great energy"
[syn: {energy}, {vigour}]
2: active strength of body or mind [syn: {vigour}]
3: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);
"his writing conveys great energy" [syn: {energy}, {vigour},
{vim}]
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