a. Obs. [f. L. veget-us VEGETE: see -OUS.] = VEGETE a.
1609. B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., II. ii. If shee be faire, yong, and vegetous.
a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm. (1675), 422. A vegetous faith is able to say unto a mountain, Be removed into the sea.
1696. Whiston, The. Earth, IV. (1722), 351. The Seeds of those Vegetables which God originally Created were fresh and vegetous.
