Veg"e*tate (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Vegetated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Vegetating.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to
enliven. See Vegetable.]
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 vegetate again.
Pope.
2. Fig.: To lead a live 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 papule.
Veg"e*tate (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Vegetated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Vegetating.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to
enliven. See Vegetable.]
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 vegetate again.
Pope.
2. Fig.: To lead a live 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 papule.
