Vigor

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1. Health; hardiness.
2. A measure of the increase in plant growth or foliage volume through time after planting.

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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.

⇒ 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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Vig"or, v. t.

To invigorate.

Feltham.

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