vegetatev.

Brit.

/ˈvɛdʒᵻteɪt/, U.S.

/ˈvɛdʒəˌteɪt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin vegetāt-, vegetāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin vegetāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of vegetāre to impart energy to, to invigorate, in post-classical Latin also to live, to grow (5th cent.) < vegetus vegete adj. Compare French végéter to develop, to grow (1375 in Middle French; in early use not exclusively of plants), to give strength and vigour (to a living thing) (1480), to exhibit the functions common to plants and animals (1530), (in figurative use) to lead a dull, monotonous life, without intellectual or social activity (1718).

1. intransitive. Of a plant, seed, etc.: to sprout; to germinate; to produce new growth; (in later use) spec. to produce shoots and leaves, as opposed to flowers or seeds. Also in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)]

growa1000

springOE

creue?c1450

eche1567

vegetate1605

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow

waxc1000

thrivec1175

breeda1350

grow1382

springc1384

upgrowc1430

shoot1538

bud1566

eche1567

to start up1570

vegetate1605

excresce1691

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. x. 38 You might see..the manifest forme of a rose, vegetating and growing.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 27 A Plant..vegetates; that is to say..it nourishes itself, shoots, increases in size, and produces Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem Prol. A Weed that has to twenty Summer's ran, Shoots up in Stalk, and Vegetates to Man.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xii. 91 Seeds will not vegetate without air.

1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 107 A young oak, just vegetating from the acorn.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 627 The plants being well earthed up, vegetate with increased luxuriance.

1838 T. 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.

1877 J. Hogg Veg. Garden 105 Parsley requires a rich mellow soil to grow it in perfection, and as the seed vegetates slowly..it is important to sow it as early as possible in April.

1957 Weeds 5 4 Plants from late planted seed vegetate the first season and flower during the second season.

1991 Pract. Gardening Dec. 30/4 Named varieties of walnut are usually late vegetating and are not susceptible to these frosts.

2. transitive. To cause to grow; to stimulate growth or development in; to animate, give life to. Also figurative. Now rare.In quot. 1671 intransitive: to cause something to live and grow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > give life [verb (transitive)]

wrecchec897

quickOE

soulOE

aquicka1000

quickena1382

vivificate?a1475

live1483

envive1523

embreathea1529

instruct1532

animate1533

vivify1545

enlive1593

inanimate1610

vegetate1620

interanimatea1631

pre-inanimatea1631

enliven1631

vive1637

suscitate1646

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > develop > cause to

vegetate1620

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum sig. a4^v The Roote, whose sappe doth vegetate the rest.

1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 79 The continuing and placing of Ideas..doth greatly quicken and vegetate the Invention.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 300 Therefore in some parts it [sc. the soul] animates only, and vegetates.

1749 Gentleman's Mag. June 259/2 The water alone could vegetate this kind of tree.

1794 Politics for People II. No. 14. 217 It is not Heaven who orders the sun to run its course, and vegetate the earth, but it is the King.

1840 F. S. Wiggins Amer. Farmer's Instructor xiii. 240 The unusual length of time it [sc. gama grass] requires to vegetate its seed, is a very serious objection to this mode of cultivation.

1883 Science 16 Feb. 50/2 Such animals as Hydra and Spongilla do have the power to vegetate their own intrinsic chlorophyl.

1900 G. W. Oliver Plant Culture 109 Shallow pans are the most convenient in which to vegetate the spores.

†3. transitive. To make strong or vigorous. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Vegetate, to make strong.

4. intransitive. (Of a substance or object) to grow or sprout in the manner of a plant; spec. (of a salt) to effloresce or produce arborescent formations; (Medicine) to form a vegetation (vegetation n. 8). Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > increase as if by growth

vegetate1659

1659 tr. R. Fludd Mosaicall Philos. 246 The animal, vegetable, and mineral salt..vegetate and multiply, both in their airy volatill salt..and in their aetheriall or celestiall fire.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 89 Metals and Minerals..shoot, ferment, and as it were vegetate and regenerate.

1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 79 They vegetate, if solutions of both metals [sc. silver and mercury] in the same acid be mixed together.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 501 Naturalists have observed that ore in swamps and pondy ground vegetates and increases.

1827 Lancet 20 Oct. 84/1 You will find that the crystals run up the basin on the side exposed to the light and vegetate as it were, in the basin in a most beautiful manner.

1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory of Another Life xiii. 173 Such dispositions..are living powers; they vegetate, and cover the entire surface of the soul.

1912 Bull. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 32 384 They [sc. tumours]..occasionally vegetate irregularly and take on bizarre forms.

1998 Ambix 45 177 He made an aqueous solution of spirit of nitre, mercury, and silver that, when allowed to stand for forty days, began to ‘vegetate’ or generate a tree-like formation of silver.

a. transitive. To cover or provide with vegetation. In earlier use only in past participle.

ΚΠ

1697 [see vegetated adj. at Derivatives].

1847 J. B. Jukes Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Fly I. xvi. 399 The shore was..so thickly vegetated with groves of cocoa-nuts and other trees, that we could see no habitations.

1876 Nature 9 Nov. 31/1 The head of the bay, which appeared from the distance to be well vegetated.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Nov. 6/1 New Amsterdam..is densely vegetated, and consequently more valuable.

1920 W. S. Blatchley Orthoptera Northeastern Amer. 377 Here the soil was very sparsely vegetated, sedges and wild asters being the prevailing herbs.

1945 Rotarian May 32/3 The expert skimmed the surface of the plot, spread fertilizer, and ‘vegetated’ the soil with hundreds of patches of transplanted bent.

1974 Audubon Jan. 84/3 It is heavily forested and vegetated, and a dune ridge..runs virtually the whole length of the island.

2000 T. Gandhi Birds & Regeneration iii. 59 Birds..ensure the natural productivity of a great variety of plants, enabling them to reproduce vigorously and vegetate the land.

b. intransitive. Of earth, soil, etc.: to give rise to or support vegetation. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > be covered with vegetation [verb (intransitive)] > produce vegetation

germinate1660

ratoon1732

vegetate1799

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 105 It is well known that beds of volcanic ashes and pumice vegetate sooner than any other.

1835 Knickerbocker Aug. 91 The mind will no more kindle than the earth will vegetate when the light and heat of the blessed sun are excluded.

1849 H. Read Hand God Hist. ii. xvi. 274 Each successive spring the earth vegetates afresh and pours a new and abundant harvest into the lap of every living thing.

1903 Handbk. First Presbyterian Church 113 Let no spade or mattock ever hereafter disturb the soil that vegetates so luxuriantly over their ashes.

6. figurative.

a. intransitive. Of a person: to lead a dull, monotonous life, without intellectual or social activity; to live or spend time in an unchallenging, inactive way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > be listless or lethargic [verb (intransitive)]

slumberc1380

dream1548

vegetate1740

moon1763

stagnate1774

maunder1775

Dianize1834

veg1979

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > life of vegetable > vegetate [verb (intransitive)]

vegetate1740

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber i. 15 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?

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 542 In short, we rather vegetated than lived.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 25 He repaired with his family..to vegetate (as they called it) at Wilmington Park.

1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xvii. 380 Weary..of the obscurity in which he vegetated he resolved to apply himself to the culture of poetry.

1886 W. J. Tucker Life 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.

1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain viii. 441 You had to get out and do something, not just vegetate and sail and saw wood.

2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lxxix. 290 Again, opinion was diverse, and stretched from shopping to finding a decent pub in which to vegetate.

b. intransitive. Of a country, nation, etc.: to exist quietly and inactively.

ΚΠ

1791 London Chron. 14 June 2/1 The Polish nation, after having vegetated so long in obscurity,..will become one of the happiest nations.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. iii. 186 The vast empire of China..has vegetated through a succession of drowsy ages.

1851 Harper's Mag. Dec. 125/2 The House of Hapsburg, as a dynasty, exists no more. It merely vegetates at the whim of the mighty Czar.

1916 S. Herbert Mod. Europe ii. v. 107 The country [sc. Switzerland] vegetated peaceably until 1829, when a movement for cantonal reform began.

1951 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 87/3 So long as Western Europe was vegetating in dire poverty the men of the Kremlin hoped to conquer it from within.

2009 J. Derbyshire We are Doomed xi. 228 The Levant was at that point vegetating quietly in the embrace of the Ottoman empire.

†7. transitive. To provide or supply with fruit and vegetables. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > supply with provisions

victualc1380

meat1568

provant1599

provision1604

catera1616

bread1797

grub1819

ration1834

vegetate1846

tucker1899

feed1904

1846 S. Parker Jrnl. Exploring Tour beyond Rocky Mts. (ed. 2) xxvi. 375 Our stay at Tahiti was employed by the ship's crew..in ‘vegetating the ship’, as they phrase it; that is, by collecting quantities..of oranges, bananas, sweet potatoes,..yams and squashes.

Derivatives

ˈvegetated adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > living and growing

vegetablec1425

vegetal1490

sustenablea1500

vegetative1567

vegetated1697

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective]

greeneOE

strongc1230

verdant1590

shrubby1598

shaggy1605

tufted1606

tufty1612

covered1632

vegetated1697

covert1707

verdurous1717

shagged1784

matted1791

vegetive1855

scrubbed1870

flourishing1883

1697 J. Floyer Enq. Use Baths sig. a^v By the Earth, or rather the Vegetated part of it, as also by our Animal Food, we obtain the Consistence of our Humours.

1743 Sel. Trans. Hon. Soc. Improvers 82 While the Clover is growing for Hay, all the vegetated Seeds of Weeds..are choked and killed by it.

1764 London Chron. 1 Dec. 532 I came to light my vegetated candles.

1805–20 W. Blake Jerusalem Pl. 52 To Deists, Your Greek Philosophy, which is a remnant of Druidism, teaches that Man is Righteous in his Vegetated Spectre.

1934 R. W. Bailey et al. Floods & Accelerated Erosion in N. Utah 18 The litter and debris on the vegetated slopes extended down to the very edge of the main channel.

2005 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 20 Dec. 2 Tony Clevenger..recently helped design 24 vegetated wildlife crossings over 30 miles on the Transcanada Highway.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	vegetate
释义	† vegetateadj. Forms: 1500s vegetat, 1600s vegitate, 1600s–1800s vegetate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin vegetātus, vegetāre. Etymology: < classical Latin vegetātus, past participle of vegetāre vegetate v. Compare earlier vegetative adj., vegetable adj., vegetal adj. Obsolete. Originally: having a vegetative soul; (in later use also) characterized by life and growth, as plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] quickOE vegetablec1425 adolent?1440 vegetative1509 vegetate1574 vegetarya1595 vegetating1605 1574 J. 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. a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 564 We should..be flesh of his flesh..that we might be vegetate with his Spirit, even with his Divine Spirit. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 79 This may be evidenced, by undeniable experiments, from things inanimate and vegitate. 1761 London Chron. 14 May 469 The longævous Jew, Ahasuerus,..is said to find himself vegetate, and not at all the worse for wearing. 1872 E. E. Ford My Recreations 205 Her soul dies out,—she finds too late, Her life henceforth is vegetate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). vegetatev. Brit. /ˈvɛdʒᵻteɪt/, U.S. /ˈvɛdʒəˌteɪt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin vegetāt-, vegetāre. Etymology: < classical Latin vegetāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of vegetāre to impart energy to, to invigorate, in post-classical Latin also to live, to grow (5th cent.) < vegetus vegete adj. Compare French végéter to develop, to grow (1375 in Middle French; in early use not exclusively of plants), to give strength and vigour (to a living thing) (1480), to exhibit the functions common to plants and animals (1530), (in figurative use) to lead a dull, monotonous life, without intellectual or social activity (1718). 1. intransitive. Of a plant, seed, etc.: to sprout; to germinate; to produce new growth; (in later use) spec. to produce shoots and leaves, as opposed to flowers or seeds. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] growa1000 springOE creue?c1450 eche1567 vegetate1605 the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow waxc1000 thrivec1175 breeda1350 grow1382 springc1384 upgrowc1430 shoot1538 bud1566 eche1567 to start up1570 vegetate1605 excresce1691 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. x. 38 You might see..the manifest forme of a rose, vegetating and growing. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 27 A Plant..vegetates; that is to say..it nourishes itself, shoots, increases in size, and produces Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem Prol. A Weed that has to twenty Summer's ran, Shoots up in Stalk, and Vegetates to Man. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xii. 91 Seeds will not vegetate without air. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 107 A young oak, just vegetating from the acorn. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 627 The plants being well earthed up, vegetate with increased luxuriance. 1838 T. 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. 1877 J. Hogg Veg. Garden 105 Parsley requires a rich mellow soil to grow it in perfection, and as the seed vegetates slowly..it is important to sow it as early as possible in April. 1957 Weeds 5 4 Plants from late planted seed vegetate the first season and flower during the second season. 1991 Pract. Gardening Dec. 30/4 Named varieties of walnut are usually late vegetating and are not susceptible to these frosts. 2. transitive. To cause to grow; to stimulate growth or development in; to animate, give life to. Also figurative. Now rare.In quot. 1671 intransitive: to cause something to live and grow. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > give life [verb (transitive)] wrecchec897 quickOE soulOE aquicka1000 quickena1382 vivificate?a1475 live1483 envive1523 embreathea1529 instruct1532 animate1533 vivify1545 enlive1593 inanimate1610 vegetate1620 interanimatea1631 pre-inanimatea1631 enliven1631 vive1637 suscitate1646 the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > develop > cause to vegetate1620 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum sig. a4^v The Roote, whose sappe doth vegetate the rest. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 79 The continuing and placing of Ideas..doth greatly quicken and vegetate the Invention. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 300 Therefore in some parts it [sc. the soul] animates only, and vegetates. 1749 Gentleman's Mag. June 259/2 The water alone could vegetate this kind of tree. 1794 Politics for People II. No. 14. 217 It is not Heaven who orders the sun to run its course, and vegetate the earth, but it is the King. 1840 F. S. Wiggins Amer. Farmer's Instructor xiii. 240 The unusual length of time it [sc. gama grass] requires to vegetate its seed, is a very serious objection to this mode of cultivation. 1883 Science 16 Feb. 50/2 Such animals as Hydra and Spongilla do have the power to vegetate their own intrinsic chlorophyl. 1900 G. W. Oliver Plant Culture 109 Shallow pans are the most convenient in which to vegetate the spores. †3. transitive. To make strong or vigorous. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Vegetate, to make strong. 4. intransitive. (Of a substance or object) to grow or sprout in the manner of a plant; spec. (of a salt) to effloresce or produce arborescent formations; (Medicine) to form a vegetation (vegetation n. 8). Also figurative. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > increase as if by growth vegetate1659 1659 tr. R. Fludd Mosaicall Philos. 246 The animal, vegetable, and mineral salt..vegetate and multiply, both in their airy volatill salt..and in their aetheriall or celestiall fire. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 89 Metals and Minerals..shoot, ferment, and as it were vegetate and regenerate. 1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 79 They vegetate, if solutions of both metals [sc. silver and mercury] in the same acid be mixed together. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 501 Naturalists have observed that ore in swamps and pondy ground vegetates and increases. 1827 Lancet 20 Oct. 84/1 You will find that the crystals run up the basin on the side exposed to the light and vegetate as it were, in the basin in a most beautiful manner. 1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory of Another Life xiii. 173 Such dispositions..are living powers; they vegetate, and cover the entire surface of the soul. 1912 Bull. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 32 384 They [sc. tumours]..occasionally vegetate irregularly and take on bizarre forms. 1998 Ambix 45 177 He made an aqueous solution of spirit of nitre, mercury, and silver that, when allowed to stand for forty days, began to ‘vegetate’ or generate a tree-like formation of silver. 5. a. transitive. To cover or provide with vegetation. In earlier use only in past participle. ΚΠ 1697 [see vegetated adj. at Derivatives]. 1847 J. B. Jukes Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Fly I. xvi. 399 The shore was..so thickly vegetated with groves of cocoa-nuts and other trees, that we could see no habitations. 1876 Nature 9 Nov. 31/1 The head of the bay, which appeared from the distance to be well vegetated. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Nov. 6/1 New Amsterdam..is densely vegetated, and consequently more valuable. 1920 W. S. Blatchley Orthoptera Northeastern Amer. 377 Here the soil was very sparsely vegetated, sedges and wild asters being the prevailing herbs. 1945 Rotarian May 32/3 The expert skimmed the surface of the plot, spread fertilizer, and ‘vegetated’ the soil with hundreds of patches of transplanted bent. 1974 Audubon Jan. 84/3 It is heavily forested and vegetated, and a dune ridge..runs virtually the whole length of the island. 2000 T. Gandhi Birds & Regeneration iii. 59 Birds..ensure the natural productivity of a great variety of plants, enabling them to reproduce vigorously and vegetate the land. b. intransitive. Of earth, soil, etc.: to give rise to or support vegetation. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > be covered with vegetation [verb (intransitive)] > produce vegetation germinate1660 ratoon1732 vegetate1799 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 105 It is well known that beds of volcanic ashes and pumice vegetate sooner than any other. 1835 Knickerbocker Aug. 91 The mind will no more kindle than the earth will vegetate when the light and heat of the blessed sun are excluded. 1849 H. Read Hand God Hist. ii. xvi. 274 Each successive spring the earth vegetates afresh and pours a new and abundant harvest into the lap of every living thing. 1903 Handbk. First Presbyterian Church 113 Let no spade or mattock ever hereafter disturb the soil that vegetates so luxuriantly over their ashes. 6. figurative. a. intransitive. Of a person: to lead a dull, monotonous life, without intellectual or social activity; to live or spend time in an unchallenging, inactive way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > be listless or lethargic [verb (intransitive)] slumberc1380 dream1548 vegetate1740 moon1763 stagnate1774 maunder1775 Dianize1834 veg1979 the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > life of vegetable > vegetate [verb (intransitive)] vegetate1740 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber i. 15 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? 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 542 In short, we rather vegetated than lived. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 25 He repaired with his family..to vegetate (as they called it) at Wilmington Park. 1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xvii. 380 Weary..of the obscurity in which he vegetated he resolved to apply himself to the culture of poetry. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life 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. 1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain viii. 441 You had to get out and do something, not just vegetate and sail and saw wood. 2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lxxix. 290 Again, opinion was diverse, and stretched from shopping to finding a decent pub in which to vegetate. b. intransitive. Of a country, nation, etc.: to exist quietly and inactively. ΚΠ 1791 London Chron. 14 June 2/1 The Polish nation, after having vegetated so long in obscurity,..will become one of the happiest nations. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. iii. 186 The vast empire of China..has vegetated through a succession of drowsy ages. 1851 Harper's Mag. Dec. 125/2 The House of Hapsburg, as a dynasty, exists no more. It merely vegetates at the whim of the mighty Czar. 1916 S. Herbert Mod. Europe ii. v. 107 The country [sc. Switzerland] vegetated peaceably until 1829, when a movement for cantonal reform began. 1951 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 87/3 So long as Western Europe was vegetating in dire poverty the men of the Kremlin hoped to conquer it from within. 2009 J. Derbyshire We are Doomed xi. 228 The Levant was at that point vegetating quietly in the embrace of the Ottoman empire. †7. transitive. To provide or supply with fruit and vegetables. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > supply with provisions victualc1380 meat1568 provant1599 provision1604 catera1616 bread1797 grub1819 ration1834 vegetate1846 tucker1899 feed1904 1846 S. Parker Jrnl. Exploring Tour beyond Rocky Mts. (ed. 2) xxvi. 375 Our stay at Tahiti was employed by the ship's crew..in ‘vegetating the ship’, as they phrase it; that is, by collecting quantities..of oranges, bananas, sweet potatoes,..yams and squashes. Derivatives ˈvegetated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > living and growing vegetablec1425 vegetal1490 sustenablea1500 vegetative1567 vegetated1697 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] greeneOE strongc1230 verdant1590 shrubby1598 shaggy1605 tufted1606 tufty1612 covered1632 vegetated1697 covert1707 verdurous1717 shagged1784 matted1791 vegetive1855 scrubbed1870 flourishing1883 1697 J. Floyer Enq. Use Baths sig. a^v By the Earth, or rather the Vegetated part of it, as also by our Animal Food, we obtain the Consistence of our Humours. 1743 Sel. Trans. Hon. Soc. Improvers 82 While the Clover is growing for Hay, all the vegetated Seeds of Weeds..are choked and killed by it. 1764 London Chron. 1 Dec. 532 I came to light my vegetated candles. 1805–20 W. Blake Jerusalem Pl. 52 To Deists, Your Greek Philosophy, which is a remnant of Druidism, teaches that Man is Righteous in his Vegetated Spectre. 1934 R. W. Bailey et al. Floods & Accelerated Erosion in N. Utah 18 The litter and debris on the vegetated slopes extended down to the very edge of the main channel. 2005 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 20 Dec. 2 Tony Clevenger..recently helped design 24 vegetated wildlife crossings over 30 miles on the Transcanada Highway. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1574v.1605
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† vegetateadj.

vegetatev.

Derivatives