| Vital |
a. |
Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions. |
| Vital |
a. |
Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood. |
| Vital |
a. |
Containing life; living. |
| Vital |
a. |
Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal. |
| Vital |
a. |
Very necessary; highly important; essential. |
| Vital |
a. |
Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. |
| Vital |
n. |
A vital part; one of the vitals. |
| Vitalic |
a. |
Pertaining to life; vital. |
| Vitalism |
n. |
The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces. |
| Vitalist |
n. |
A believer in the theory of vitalism;
opposed to physicist. |
| Vitalistic |
a. |
Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle. |
| Vitality |
n. |
The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise. |
| Vitalization |
n. |
The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle. |
| Vitalize |
v. t. |
To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood. |
| Vitalized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Vitalize |
| Vitalizing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Vitalize |
| Vitally |
adv. |
In a vital manner. |
| Vitals |
n. pl. |
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain. |
| Vitals |
n. pl. |
Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state. |
