a. Obs. rare. Also vigeryouse, vygoryous, -ious. [Erron. var. of VIGOROUS a.] = VIGOROUS a. I.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W.), V. vi. OO ij. By hym the whiche … is so vygoryous in all his puyssaunces.
1641. Vox Borealis, C j b. Man by the contrary being too vigorious, looseth God his Image in his privilegde.
So † Vigoriously adv. Obs.
c. 1450. Lovelich, Grail, xii. 413. More vigeryousely neuere reden men Into non place thanne they diden then.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, x. 263. Reynawd had medled hymself vygoriously among the frenshemen.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., Epitome 367. [The Danes] whom, albeit the King vigoriously withstood, yet they … forceably helde themselues … in the Land.
