Vig"or , v. t. To invigorate. [Obs.]
Feltham.
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. &fist; Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power
of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.
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