Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy. The vigor of this arm was never vain. Dryden.
Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
Strength; efficacy; potency. But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. Milton.
To invigorate. [Obs.] Feltham.
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