Vig"or (?), n. [OE. vigour,
vigor, OF. vigor, vigur, vigour, F.
vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or
strong. See Vegetable, Vigil.] 1.
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.
2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal
or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with
vigor.
3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
But in the fruithful earth . . .
His beams, unactive else, their vigor find.
Milton.
☞ Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active
strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from
passive strength, or strength to endure.
Vig"or, v. t. To invigorate.
[Obs.] Feltham.