vivency

English

Etymology

Latin vivens, present participle of vivere (“to live”).

Noun

vivency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     although not in a distinct and indisputable way of vivency, or answering in all points the properties or affections of plants

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vivency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)