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   Vigor , n. [OE. vigour, vigor, OF. vigor, vigur, vigour, F. vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or strong.  See Vegetable, Vigil.]
   Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
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   The vigor of this arm was never vain.
   Dryden.
   
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   Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
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   Strength; efficacy; potency.
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   But in the fruithful earth . . . 
   His beams, unactive else, their vigor find.
   Milton.
   
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   ☞ Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.
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   Vigor, v. t. To invigorate.  [Obs.]
   Feltham.
   
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