Vivacious /(?; 277)/
Vi·va·cious
Vivacious
a.
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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.
- Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
- Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. (Bot.) [R.]