vitalic

comparative more vitalic · superlative most vitalic

1. dateduncommonRelating to, or characteristic of life; vital.

   Did not Cuvier believe that there had been not one but an infinite number of 'creations’, and that as our earth cooled after its departure from the sun a succession of vitalic phenomena appeared on its surface?

   1931 January, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., “The Horror from the Hills”, in Weird Tales, volume 17, number 1, Indianapolis, Indiana: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, page 42

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   Is it impossible that the successive geological revolutions which have attended, at least, if not immediately caused, these successive elevations of vitalic character—is it improbable that these revolutions have themselves been produced by the successive planetary discharges from the Sun—in other words, by the successive variations in the solar influence on the Earth?

   1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 85

   The foundation of this argument is, that the human soul is the focalized, concentrated extract or epitome of all the forces and vitalic laws which fill, inspire, and actuate the immeasurable empire of Nature and God.

   1868, Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia, volume 5, New York, page 395

2. dateduncommonFull of life; energetic; lively.

   Such a child! you'd think first thing, noting her vitalic freshness, her little-girl lack of affectation.

   1935 January, Mary Watkins Reeves, “Subject: Frances Langford; Object: Matrimony”, in Radio Mirror, volume 3, number 3, New York: Macfadden Publications, Inc., page 66

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   He did not attempt to be sophistical; he “varied” his reading, in the sense that all literature should be varied, between the so-called “classics”—of stock—and the vitalic literature that breathes of onflowing life.

   1924 February, Francis Collins Miller, “Irrepressible Appreciations of a Good Book”, in The Notre Dame Scholastic, volume 57, number 6, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, page 56

   They were impressed with the projecting power of the three main figures, bursting with tension, one of the most vitalic low reliefs they had seen.

   1961, Irving Stone, The Agony And The Ecstasy, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 137