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▪ I. † ˈvegetate, a. Obs. rare.
Also 7 vegit-.
[ad. L. vegetāt-us, pa. pple. of vegetāre: see next.]
Endowed with vegetable life; growing as plants.
1574J. Jones tr. Galen, De Elementis Ep. Ded. p. ii, Whether they be Inanimata..as the Minerals; or Animata, with life, Vegetat, Sensit, & Rational, Growing thinges, as Hearbes. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 79 This may be evidenced, by undeniable experiments, from things inanimate and vegitate.
▪ II. vegetate, v.|ˈvɛdʒɪteɪt|
[f. L. vegetāt-, ppl. stem of vegetāre to animate, enliven, f. vegetus active, lively, vigorous: see vegete a.]
1. intr. Of plants, seeds, etc.: To exercise or exhibit vegetative faculties or functions; to grow or develop, or begin to do so.
1605Timme Quersit. i. x. 38 You might see..the manifest forme of a rose, vegetating and growing. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 27 A Plant..vegetates; that is to say..it nourishes itself, shoots, increases in size, and produces Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 97 Seeds will not vegetate without air. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery II. 107 A young oak, just vegetating from the acorn. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 627 The plants being well earthed up, vegetate with increased luxuriance. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 859 The leaves [of the tea-plant] are not fit to be pulled till the shrub has vegetated for three years. 1852Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. (1857) xviii. 263 The sun in autumn may be bright and clear, but the seed which has not been sown until then will not vegetate.
transf. and fig.1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. Prol., A weed that has to twenty summers ran, Shoots up in stalk, and vegetates to man. 1733Pope Ess. Man iii. 16 See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving, vegetate again. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) III. 408 That corruption has cast deep roots in that party, and they vegetate in it..every day with greater and greater force. 1836I. Taylor Phys. The. Another Life xiii. 173 Such dispositions..are living powers; they vegetate, and cover the entire surface of the soul.
b. transf. To increase as if by, to present the appearance of, vegetable growth.
1744Berkeley Siris §177 All parts of the world vegetate by a fine subtle æther. 1782Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 79 They vegetate, if solutions of both metals [i.e. silver and mercury] in the same acid be mixed together. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 501 Naturalists have observed that ore in swamps and pondy ground vegetates and increases. 1823Ure Dict. Chem. s.v. Vegetation (Saline), When salts are suffered to vegetate in this manner [etc.]. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Vegetate,..as a wart or pimple; [to] produce excrescences.
c. To produce vegetation.
1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 105 It is well known that beds of volcanic ashes and pumice vegetate sooner than any other.
2. fig. Of persons: To live a merely physical life; to lead a dull, monotonous existence, devoid of intellectual activity or social intercourse; to live in dull retirement or seclusion.
1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 18 The man who chuses never to laugh..seems to me only in the quiet state of a green tree; he vegetates, tis true, but shall we say he lives? 1777G. Forster Voy. round World I. 542 In short, we rather vegetated than lived. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. I. 25 He repaired with his family..to vegetate (as they called it) at Wilmington Park. 1860Adler Prov. Poet xvii. 380 Weary..of the obscurity in which he vegetated he resolved to apply himself to the culture of poetry. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 252 The family was vegetating in dingy privacy in an Austrian provincial town on the shattered remnants of what had once been a princely fortune.
b. Of a country, nation, etc.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 294 The Polish nation might, after having vegetated so long in obscurity [etc.]. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. vii. vi. (1849) 407 The vast empire of China..has vegetated through a succession of drowsy ages. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. xv. 341 The republics of Genoa, Sienna, and Lucca had permission to vegetate under the imperial protection. 1851Kossuth in Daily News 22 March (1894) 5/6 The House of Hapsburg, as a dynasty, exists no more. It merely vegetates at the whim of the mighty Czar.
†3. trans. To cause to grow; to stimulate growth or development in; to animate, quicken. Obs.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike A 4 b, The Roote, whose sappe doth vegetate the rest. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 79 The continuing and placing of Ideas..doth greatly quicken and vegetate the Invention. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 347 This Sensible World, is the Receptacle of all Forms, Qualities, and Bodies, all which cannot be vegetated and quickned without God.
absol.1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 300 Therefore in some parts it [the soul] animates only, and vegetates.
†4. To make strong or vigorous. Obs.—0
1623in Cockeram.
5. To provide or supply with vegetables (see quot.). rare—1.
1838Parker Exploring Tour beyond Rocky Mts. (1846) 386 Our stay at Tahiti was employed by the ship's crew..in vegetating the ship, as they phrase it; that is, in collecting oranges, bananas, sweet potatoes,..yams and squashes.
6. In pa. pple. Provided with vegetation or plant-life. Usually with qualifying adv.
1876Nature 9 Nov. 31/1 The head of the bay, which appeared from the distance to be well vegetated. 1892Pall Mall G. 25 Nov. 6/1 New Amsterdam..is densely vegetated, and consequently more valuable.
Hence ˈvegetated ppl. a.; ˈvegetating vbl. n.
1775Ash, Vegetating, the state or act of growing like plants. 1804–20Blake Jerus. To Deists, Your Greek Philosophy, which is a remnant of Druidism, teaches that Man is righteous in his Vegetated Spectre. 1884E. P. Roe Nat. Ser. Story ii, Frequent removal from one part of the country to another prevents anything like vegetating. |