单词 | vitality |
释义 | vitalityn. 1. a. Vital force, power, or principle as possessed or manifested by living things (cf. vital adj. 1); the principle of life; animation. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda v. iii. 65 Death..Hath depriued Erastus trunke from breathing vitalitie. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. i. §6. 6 Whether that motion, vitality and operation, were by incubation, or how else, the manner is only knowne to God. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxii. sig. O3v When a man shall exhaust his very vitalitie, for the hilling vp of fatall Gold. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed iv. 432 When by an act of his will he had submitted to that death,..it was not in the power of his soul to continue any longer vitality to the body. 1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother iii. ii Let thy vitality impart New Spirits to his fainting Heart. 1812 Times 6 Mar. 2/2 They perceived that vitality had been actually extinct in two of them for some time, the bodies being perfectly cold. 1844 G. Bird Urinary Deposits (1857) 338 Those which we have now to investigate are organic substances, often possessing organization, and sometimes enjoying an independent vitality. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 1 The mysteries of organized vitality remain impenetrable. b. Of plants or vegetative organisms. Also spec. of seeds: Germinating power. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > germinating power fecundity1691 vitality1829 (a) (b)1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 271 The power [in seeds] of preserving their vitality is also extremely variable.1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. iii. i. 767 By retaining vitality we mean preserving their power of germinating.1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 262 Vitality of Plants. 1842 W. Wordsworth A Poet! in Misc. Sonn. i And so the grandeur of the Forest-tree Comes..from its own divine vitality. 1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 150 The experiments..prove indeed conclusively that whatever the true seat of vegetable vitality may be, it is similar in its nature to that of the Animal Kingdom. 2. figurative. The ability or capacity on the part of something of continuing to exist or to perform its functions; power of enduring or continuing.Merging insensibly into 3. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > power of enduring survivability18.. vitality1848 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ix. 563 The dependance of ministerial vitality upon parliamentary majorities. 1866 R. W. Dale Disc. Special Occasions viii. 275 There is terrible vitality both in truth and error. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 113 The vitality of Pope's writings, or at least of certain fragments of them, is remarkable. 3. figurative. Active force or power; mental or physical vigour; activity, animation, liveliness.Common from c1860. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or liveliness jollinessc1386 liveliheadc1425 quicknessc1425 vyfnes1475 ramagec1485 couragea1498 liveliness1534 spritec1540 livelihood1566 life1583 sprightliness1599 sprightfulness1602 ruach1606 sprightiness1607 sparkle1611 airiness1628 vivacy1637 spiritfulness1644 spirit1651 vivacity1652 spiritedness1654 brightness1660 sprightness1660 ramageness1686 race1690 friskiness1727 spirituousness1727 vivaciousness1727 brio1731 raciness1759 phlogiston1789 animation1791 lifefulness1829 pepper-and-salt1842 corkiness1845 aliveness1853 vitality1858 music1859 virtu1876 liveness1890 zippiness1907 bounce1909 zing1917 radioactivity1922 oomph1937 pizzazz1937 zinginess1938 hep1946 vavoom1962 welly1977 masala1986 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 619/2 Which shows that their minds are in a state of diminished..vitality. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. ii. 45 Such was the intense vitality of the Béarnese prince. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 358 A country whose vitality is strong, and where the administrative power is active and vigorous. 1884 Manch. Examiner 9 May 5/4 To the strong vitality which distinguishes his race, he united intellectual power of the highest order. 4. With a and plural. Something possessed of vital force. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > [noun] shaftc888 blooda1325 livera1382 creaturea1387 live-wight1610 animate1642 life form1850 vitality1851 bioform1958 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. iii. 162 He was full of bright speech and argument; radiant with arrowy vitalities. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. v. 36 There was no vegetation to define its course, not even the green conferva, that obscure vitality which follows water at home. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 91 Shall, then, the great vitality, France, Signal the backward step once more? 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