Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VI-TALI-TY, n. [from vital.]

1. The principle of animation, or of life; as, the vitality of vegetable seeds or of eggs. Roy.
2. The act of living; animation.

VIT-AL-I-ZATION, n.

The act or process of infusing the vital principle. C. Caldwell.

VITALIZE, v.t.

1. To give life to. Trans. Pausanias.
2. To furnish with the vital principle; as, vitalized blood. Caldwell.

VITAL-IZ-ED, pp.

Supplied with the vital principle.

VITAL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Furnishing with the vital principle.

VITAL-LY, adv.

1. In such a manner as to give life. The organic structure of human bodies, by which they are fitted to live and move, and to be vitally informed by the soul, is the workmanship of a most wise and beneficent Maker. Bentley.
2. Essentially; as, vitally important.

VITALS, n. plur.

1. Parts of animal bodies essential to life, such as the viscera dependent upon the great sympathetic nerve. Prior.
2. The part essential to life, or to a sound state. Corruption of manners preys upon the vitals of a state.

VIT'EL-LA-RY, n. [L. vitellus, the yolk of an egg.]

The place where the yolk of an egg swims in the white. [Little used.] Brown.

VITIATE, v.t. [L. vitio. See Vice and Viciate.]

1. To injure the substance or qualities of a thing, so as to impair or spoil its use and value. Thus we say, luxury vitiates the humors of the body; evil examples vitiate the morals of youth; language is vitiated by foreign idioms. This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. Garth.
2. To render defective; to destroy; as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction. Any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict. Fraud vitiates a contract.

VITIA-TED, pp.

Depraved; rendered impure; rendered defective and void.

VITIA-TING, pp.

Depraving; rendering of no validity.

VI-TI-ATION, n.

1. The act of vitiating; depravation; corruption; as, the vitiation of the blood. Harvey.
2. A rendering invalid; as, the vitiation of a contract.

VIT-I-LIT'I-GATE, v.i. [L, vitiosus and litigo.]

To contend in law litigiously or cavilously. [Not in use.]

VIT-I-LIT'I-GATION, n.

Cavilous litigation. [Not in use.] Hudibras.

VITIOUS, or VITIOUS-LY,

or VITIOUS-NESS. [See Mous, and its derivatives.]

VITRE-O-E-LECTRIC, a.

Containing or exhibiting positive electricity, or that which is excited by rubbing glass. Ure.

VIT'RE-OUS, a. [L. vitreus, from vitrum, glass or woad; W. gleydyr, glass, a greenish blue color.]

1. Pertaining to glass.
2. Consisting of glass; as, it vitreous substance.
3. Resembling glass; as, the vitreous humor of the eye, so called from its resembling melted glass. [See Humor.]

VITRE-OUS-NESS, n.

The quality or state of being vitreous; resemblance of glass.

VI-TRESCENCE, n. [from L. vitrum, glass.]

Glassiness, or the quality of being capable of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass. Kirwan.

VI-TRES'CENT, a.

Capable of being formed into glass : tending to become glass.

VI-TRES'CI-BLE, a.

That can be vitrified. Encyc.

VIT-RI-FAC'TION, n. [See Vitrify.]

The act, process or operation of converting into glass by heat; as, the vitrifaction of sand, flint and pebbles with alkaline salts.

VIT'RI-FI-A-BLE, a. [from vitrify.]

Capable of being converted into glass by heat and fusion. Flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

VIT-RIFIC-A-BLE,

for Vitrifiable. [Not used.]

VITRIF-IC-ATE,

for Vilrify. [Not used.] Bacon.