Adjective : vegetative mold. ,a vegetative state. From Dictionary.com.
I hope if I'm trapped in a vegetive state there is someone to protect my life and not be starved to death. From Wordnik.com. [On death row - BatesLine] Reference
As a structure it had nothing about it that would attract special attention; it was simply neat, and had an appearance of comfort; but looked at in conjunction with the prettily arranged garden, with its tastefully laid out flower plots, and well stocked beds of vegetive edibles -- and which was protected from the intrusion of quadrupeds by a substantial "pailing fence" -- it was a snug and pleasant residence. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Certainly the body, container of soul and of nature, cannot even in itself be as a soulless form would be: it cannot even be like air traversed by light; it must be like air storing heat: the body holding animal or vegetive life must hold also some shadow of soul; and it is body thus modified that is the seat of corporeal pains and pleasures which appear before us, the true human being, in such a way as to produce knowledge without emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
His Life now Animal, from vegetive. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
Brute life and vegetive, electric light, 10. From Wordnik.com. [From The Mystic] Reference
First vegetive, then feels, and reasons last. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
77 1076. vegetive. From Wordnik.com. [Palamon and Arcite] Reference
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