| 释义 |
vegetant, a. and n.|ˈvɛdʒɪtənt|
[a. F. végétant, or ad. L. vegetant-, vegetans, pres. pple. of vegetāre: see vegetate v.]
A. adj.
†1. Animating, vivifying, invigorating. vegetant stone: see vegetable a. 1 d. Obs. rare.
1576G. Baker tr. Gesner's Jewell of Health 112 The making of the vegetant stone..is borowed out of the practises of the above sayde Aucthour. 1615Chapman Odyss. v. 629 The sea's chill breath, And vegetant dews, I fear will be my death.
2. Vegetating; vegetable, vegetal. Now rare.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. iii. 6 The Grouth & Repletion of productions, both Vegetant and Animall. 1654Z. Coke Logick 28 Life vegetant as Trees, fruitful and unfruitful. 1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 313 Vegetant and indissoluble salts. 1903R. Bridges Wintry Delights 70 Rejoicing In vegetant or brute existence.
3. nonce-use. Vegetarian.
1858Hogg Shelley II. 420 Tooke proposed shrimps and treacle to one of the fathers of the church vegetant here on earth.
†B. n. = vegetable n. 1, vegetal n. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xvi. 85 Simple vegetants, with metallick substances, doe draw those mercurialls..of a purging nature. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. vi. 13 It intimates howe and wherewith the Plot is..replenished both with Vegetants, and Animals. |