1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [Obs.]
Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty
years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign.
Fuller.
The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be.
I. Taylor. 2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. "Vivacious nonsense." V. Knox.
3. (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [R.]
Syn. — Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light-hearted.
— Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. — Vi*va"cious*ness, n.
Vivacity
(Vi*vac"i*ty) n. [L. vivicitas: cf. F. vivacité.] The quality or state of being vivacious. Specifically: —
(a) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. [Obs.]
The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long.
Fuller. (b) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity;
vivacity of countenance.
Syn. — Liveliness; gayety. See Liveliness.
Vivandière
(||Vi`van`dière") n. [F. See Viand.] In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a
woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.
Vivarium
(||Vi*va"ri*um) n.; pl. E. Vivariums L. Vivaria [L., fr. vivarius belonging to living creatures,
fr. vivus alive, living. See Vivid.] A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as
a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
Vivary
(Vi"va*ry) n.; pl. Vivaries A vivarium. "That . . . vivary of fowls and beasts." Donne.
Viva voce
(||Vi"va vo"ce) [L.] By word of mouth; orally.
Vivda
(Viv"da) n. See Vifda.
Vive
(||Vive) [F., imperative sing. pres. fr. vivre to live, L. vivere.] Long live, that is, success to; as,
vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
Vive
(Vive) a. [L. vivus: cf. F. vif. See Vivid.] Lively; animated; forcible. [Obs.] Bacon.
Vively
(Vive"ly), adv. In a lively manner. [Obs.]
If I see a thing vively represented on the stage.
B. Jonson. Vivency
(Vi"ven*cy) n. [L. vivens, p. pr. of vivere to live.] Manner of supporting or continuing life or
vegetation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Viverra
(||Vi*ver"ra) n. [L., a ferret.] (Zoöl.) A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.
Viverrine
(Vi*ver"rine) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Viverridæ, or Civet family.
