Vivacious /(?; 277)/

Vi·va·cious

Vivacious

a.
  1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [Obs.]
    Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign.
    The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be.
  2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
  3. Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. (Bot.) [R.]