2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
"Vivacious nonsense." V. Knox.
3. (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
[R.]
Syn. — Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund;
light-hearted.
— Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. — Vi*va"cious*ness, n.
Vi*vac"i*ty (?), n. [L. vivicitas: cf. F. vivacité.] The quality or
state of being vivacious. Specifically: —
(a) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. [Obs.]
The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle,
they lived so long.
Fuller.
(b) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the
vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of
countenance.
Syn. — Liveliness; gayety. See Liveliness.
||Vi`van`dière" (?), n. [F. See Viand.] In Continental armies,
||especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who
||sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.
||
||Vi*va"ri*um (?), n.; pl. E. Vivariums (#), L. Vivaria (#). [L., fr.
||vivarius belonging to living creatures, fr. vivus alive, living. See
||Vivid.] A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living
||animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
||
Vi"va*ry (v"v*r), n.; pl. Vivaries (-rz). A vivarium. "That . . .
vivary of fowls and beasts." Donne.
||Vi"va vo"ce (v>imac/"v v"s). [L.] By word of mouth; orally.
||
Viv"da (vv"d), n. See Vifda.
||Vive (vv). [F., imperative sing. pres. fr. vivre to live, L. vivere.]
||Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king;
||vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
||
Vive (vv), a. [L. vivus: cf. F. vif. See Vivid.] Lively; animated;
forcible. [Obs.] Bacon.