Vit"u*line (?; 277), a. [L. vitulinus, fr. vitulus a calf. See Veal.]
Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.
Vi*tu"per*a*ble (?), a. [L. vituperabilis: cf. F. vitupérable.] Liable
to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.
Vi*tu"per*ate (?; 277), v. t. [L. vituperatus, p. p. of vituperare to
blame, vituperate; vitium a fault + parare to prepare. See Vice a
fault, and Pare, v. t.] To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with
wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Vi*tu`per*a"tion (?), n. [L. vituperatio: cf. OF. vituperation. See
Vituperate.] The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.
When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and
pride, then vituperation comes upon him.
Donne.
Vi*tu"per*a*tive (?), a. Uttering or writing censure; containing, or
characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive. — Vi*tu"per*a*tive*ly, adv.
Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill
qualities.
B. Jonson.
Vi*tu"per*a`tor (?), n. [L.] One who vituperates, or censures
abusively.
Vi`tu*per"ri*ous (?), a. Worthy of vituperation; shameful; disgraceful.
[Obs.]
||Vi*va"ce (?), a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; —
||a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
||
Vi*va"cious (?; 277), a. [L. vívax, -acis, fr. vivere to live. See
Vivid.] 1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life;
long-lived. [Obs.]
Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . .
. But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's]
reign.
Fuller.
The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere
ravishment of the imagination can ever be.