n. Opposition to vivisection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One opposed to vivisection [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From L. convivium a feast; con- + vivere to live. See Victuals, and cf. Convive. ] Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person of convivial habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Convivialities The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a convivial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ovum + viviparous: cf. F. ovovivipare. ] (Biol.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + vivificate: cf. L. revivificare, revivificatum. Cf. Revivify. ] To revive; to recall or restore to life. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. révivification. ] 1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Old Chem.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. révivifier, L. revivificare. See Vivify. ] To cause to revive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } n. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reviviscens, p. pr. ofreviviscere to revive; pref. re- re- + viviscere, v. incho. fr. vivere to live. ] Able or disposed to revive; reviving. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called by Werner after the English mineralogist F. G. Vivian. ] (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vividus, from vivere to life; akin to vivus living. See Quick, a., and cf. Revive, Viand, Victuals, Vital. ] 1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick; sprightly; active. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- viv"id*ly, adv. -- viv"id*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being vivid; vividness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. vivificus: cf. F. vivifique. See Vivify. ] Giving life; reviving; enlivening. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. vivificatus, p. p. vivificare. See Vivify. ] 1. To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God vivificates and actuates the whole world. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vivificatio: cf. vivification. ] 1. The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc. McKendrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) The act or process of vivificating. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Vivified p. pr. & vb. n. Vivifying ] [ F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See Vivid, -fy; cf. Vivificate. ] To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Viviparous. ] (Zool.) An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) The quality or condition of being viviparous. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. [ L. viviparus; vivus alive + parere to bear, bring forth. Cf. Viper. ] (Biol.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Viviparous fish. (Zool.) See Embiotocoid. --
Viviparous shell (Zool.), any one of numerous species of operculated fresh-water gastropods belonging to Viviparus, Melantho, and allied genera. Their young, when born, have a well-developed spiral shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Biol.) In a viviparous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) The quality of being viviparous; viviparity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. [ Colloq. ] Pop. Sci. Monthly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vivus alive + E. section: cf. F. vivisection. See Vivid, and Section. ] The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to vivisection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vivisectionist. [ 1913 Webster ]