vitalic

Adjective

vitalic (comparative more vitalic, superlative most vitalic)

1. (dated, uncommon) Relating to, or characteristic of life; vital.
   • 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...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. (dated, uncommon) Full of life; energetic; lively.
   • 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
   • 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