vignette

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VIGNETTE, VIG'OR, noun [Latin from vigeo, to be brisk, to grow, to be strong; allied to vivo, vixi, to live.] 1. Active strength or force of body in animals; physical force. The vigor of this arm was never vain. 2. Strength of mind; intellectual force; energy. We say, a man possesses vigor of mind or intellect. 3. Strength or force in vegetable motion; as, a plant grows with vigor. 4. Strength; energy; efficacy. In the fruitful earth his beams, unactive else, their vigor find. VIG'OR, verb transitive To invigorate. [not in use.]
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