VIVACIOUS
Vi*va"cious, a. Etym: [L. vívax, -acis, fr. vivere to live. See
Vivid.]
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.)
Defn: 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. Etym: [L. vivicitas: cf. F. vivacité.]
Defn: 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.