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vegetive, a. and n.|ˈvɛdʒɪtɪv|
Also 6 vegeetyve, 7 vegitiue.
[Reduced form of vegetative a., after L. veget-āre or veget-us.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, vegetables or plants; = vegetative a. 2.
1526St. Papers Hen. VIII, VI. 534 The oolde tre for lakk of vegeetyve sprytis maye nott opteeyne perfect rote fastnesse. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 123 Not rent off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife, for hindering stalke of hir vegetiue life. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Vocation 1354 The pleasant Soyl..is all dry'd and dead; Voyd of all force, vitall, or vegetive. 1631W. Saltonstall Pict. Loquent. F ii, His knowledge consists in the vegetive nature of Plants. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. App. ii. 15 Man had not Power so much as over the green Herb, to deprive it of its Vegetive Life;..but by God's Donation.
1830Coleridge Church & State (1839) 192 Thus, without the first power, that of growth, or what Bichat and others name the vegetive life or productivity, the second power..could not exist. 1852Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 333 What if it were that life..through all The countless grades, vegetive, animal, Of nature should progress at last to man.
2. Endowed with the faculty of vegetation or growth; = vegetative a. 1 b.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 140 The Castle of Catie, about which there is nothing vegetiue, but a few solitary Palmes. 1642H. More Song Soul ii. i. ii. xlvii, That full grasp of vast Eternitie 'Longs not to beings simply vegetive. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 41 Such as are alwayes vegetive and juicy. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 1076 So man, at first a Drop, dilates with Heat,..First vegetive, then feels, and reasons last. 1700― Ovid's Met. i. 751 The Tree still panted in the unfinish'd part, Not wholly vegetive, and heav'd her Heart.
†b. Of the soul: = vegetative a. 1 a. Obs.
a1623Pemble Justification (1629) 196 The Vegetiue soule whereby Plants liue.
c. Covered with or productive of vegetation.
1855Bailey Mystic 68 Ocean and continent, sea, desert, plain Mineral and vegetive.
d. Leading a merely physical existence. Cf. vegetative a. 6.
1882Symonds Animi Figura 111 Shall these arise winged by immortal mind, Who toiled on earth obscure and vegetive?
B. n. = vegetative n. 2, vegetable n. 2.
Common in the 17th c.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxvi. (1612) 316 Nor lesse the only Vegitiues, as trees, fruits, herbes, and such. a1640Massinger Old Law i. i, Make us better then those vegetives Whose soules die within em. 1678T. P[orter] Fr. Conjurer i. 8 Have you not already eat about three parts of a Pilchard, besides a dish of Vegetives? 1689T. Plunket Char. Good Commander, etc. 55 The Sun to Plants more welcome is... Thus they of Vegetives might learn some good. 1819H. Busk Banquet iii. 479 In snug retreat this vegetive [i.e. a mushroom] demure, From human reach long deem'd itself secure. |