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        "From Middle English vital, from Old French vital, from Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”), from vīta (“life”), from vīvō (“I live”).Doublet of jiva and quick."
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              "mean": "Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.\nThe brain is a vital organ.\n1590,  Edmund Spenser,  “Book II, Canto I”, in  The Faerie Queene. , London:     for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 12:And doen the heavens afford him vitall food?\n1925, Seba Eldridge, The Organization of Life (page 164)\nWe have argued that organizatory agents are operative in all vital processes, processes that overstep the limits of the physicochemical;   \n1913,  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  The Poison Belt‎:Challenger breathed two or three times with enormous gulps, his lungs roaring as he drew in the vital gas."
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              "mean": "Necessary to continued existence.\nThe transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation."
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              "mean": "Relating to the recording of life events.\nBirth, marriage and death certificates are vital records."
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              "mean": "Very important.\nSynonyms: crucial, necessary, significant; see also Thesaurus:important\nIt is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.\n2012 December 14,  Simon Jenkins,  “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in  The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 2, page 23:David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.\n2018,  Clarence Green; James Lambert,  “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in  Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105:Vocabulary is a vital component of educational success in both first and second language contexts.\n2022 January 12,  Benedict le Vay,  “The heroes of Soham...”, in  RAIL, number 948, page 43:Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before."
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              "mean": "Containing life; living.\nSynonyms: extant, live, kicking; see also Thesaurus:alive\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book VI”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:spirits that live throughout, vital in every part\n1841,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,  “Self-Reliance”, in  Essays: First Series:I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.\n1715–1720,  Homer;  Pope, transl.,  “Book V”, in  The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:    W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott , →OCLC:The dart   pierced a vital part."
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              "mean": "Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.\n1650,  Thomas Browne,  Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London:    A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:Pythagoras and Hippocrates    affirming the birth of the seventh month to be vital."
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