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  • English Word Vitalist Definition A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.
  • English Word Vitalistic Definition Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
  • English Word Vitality Definition The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.
  • English Word Vitalization Definition The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
  • English Word Vitalize Definition To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
  • English Word Vitalized Definition of Vitalize
  • English Word Vitalizing Definition of Vitalize
  • English Word Vitally Definition In a vital manner.
  • English Word Vitals Definition Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
  • English Word Vitals Definition Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.
  • English Word Vitellary Definition Vitelline.
  • English Word Vitelligenous Definition Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.
  • English Word Vitellin Definition An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.
  • English Word Vitelline Definition Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.
  • English Word Vitellogene Definition A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.
  • English Word Vitellus Definition The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.
  • English Word Vitellus Definition Perisperm in an early condition.
  • English Word Vitiate Definition To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
  • English Word Vitiate Definition To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.
  • English Word Vitiated Definition of Vitiate
  • English Word Vitiating Definition of Vitiate
  • English Word Vitiation Definition The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract.
  • English Word Viticulose Definition Having long and slender trailing stems.
  • English Word Viticultural Definition Of or pertaining to viticulture.
  • English Word Viticulture Definition The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.
  • English Word Viticulturist Definition One engaged in viticulture.
  • English Word Vitiligo Definition A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
  • English Word Vitilitigate Definition To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.
  • English Word Vitilitigation Definition Cavilous litigation; cavillation.
  • English Word Vitiosity Definition Viciousness; depravity.