Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Vigorous; active. Rare.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.

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Examples

  • J'ai recupéré un peu de souffle meme si c pas encore ca, je tousse encore beaucoup sauf quand je vegete mais voila il a dit que comme c'etait tres abimé ca prendrai des annees pour rentrer dans l'ordre mais que yavé plus rien a faire!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • B-b-but, dis guy is vegem… vegete…. he doan eets meet by naychure!

    i can has som more? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Mais le pire a savoir c que la en ce moment je vegete alors etre fatigué comme ca en vegetant ya quand meme un probleme ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • In sum, it was vegete, quick, and lively, open as the day, untainted as the morning, full of the innocence and sprightliness of youth, it gave the soul a bright and a full view into all things, and was not only a window, but itself the prospect.

    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • First, there are many trees whose whole internal wood is perished, and yet the branches are vegete and healthy.

    Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

  • A well radicated habit, in a lively, vegete faculty, is like an apple of gold in a picture of silver; it is perfection upon perfection; it is a coat of mail upon our armour; and, in a word, it is the raising of the soul at least one story higher; for take off but the wheels, and the powers in all their operations will drive but heavily.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • In sum, it was vegete, quick, and lively; open as the day, untainted as the morning, full of the innocence and sprightliness of youth; it gave the soul a bright and a full view into all things; and was not only a window, but itself the prospect.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • But now, for the way of sinning which we have been speaking of, it is neither confined by place, nor weakened by age; but the bed-rid, the gouty, and the lethargic, may, upon this account, equal the activity of the strongest and the most vegete sinner.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

  • A well radicated habit, in a lively, vegete faculty, is like an apple of gold in a picture of silver; it is perfection upon perfection, it is a coat of mail upon our armour, and, in a word, it is the raising the soul at least one story higher: for take off but these wheels, and the powers in all their operations will drive but heavily.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • First, there are many trees, whose whole internal wood is perished, and yet the branches are vegete and healthy.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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