vitalic

adjective more vitalic · 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 wo
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.