vegetous
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vegetus. See vegete.
Adjective
vegetous (comparative more vegetous, superlative most vegetous)
- (obsolete) vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
- Ben Jonson
- If she be young, and vegetous, no sweetmeats ever drew more flies.
- Ben Jonson
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vegetous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)