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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetate \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.
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