Word Meanings - VITALIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to life; vital.

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• VITALIZATION
  The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
• VITALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
• VITAL
  1. Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions. 2. Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood. Do the heavens afford him vital food Spenser. And vital
• VITALLY
  In a vital manner.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• VITALISM
  The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
• VITALIC
  Pertaining to life; vital.
• VITALIZE
  To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
• VITALITY
  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.
• VITALIST
  A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.
• VITALS
  1. Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain. 2. Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state. "The vitals of the public body." Glanvill.
• REVITALIZE
  To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.
• ELECTRO-VITAL
  Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
• DEVITALIZE
  To deprive of life or vitality. -- De*vi`tal*i*za"tion, n.
• ELECTRO-VITALISM
  The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.
• INTERVITAL
  Between two lives. Through all its intervital gloom. Tennyson.
• SUBVITALIZED
  Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach