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Webster 1913 Edition
Vegetate
Veg′e-tate
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Vegetated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Vegetating
.] 1.
To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving
See life dissolving
vegetate
again. Pope.
2.
Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
Cowper.
Persons who . . . would have
vegetated
stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.
3.
(Med.)
To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths;
as, a
. vegetating
papuleWebster 1828 Edition
Vegetate
VEG'ETATE
,Verb.
I.
To sprout; to germinate; to grow; as plants; to grow and be enlarged by nutriment imbibed from the earth, air or water, by means of roots and leaves. Plants will not vegetate without a certain degree of heat; but some plants vegetate with less heat than others. Potatoes will vegetate after they are pared.
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