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Vital

adjective

Urgently needed; absolutely necessary. Synonym: critical. "Critical medical supplies" , "Vital for a healthy society" , "Of vital interest"

Performing an essential function in the living body. Synonym: life-sustaining. "Blood and other vital fluids" , "The loss of vital heat in shock" , "A vital spot" , "Life-giving love and praise"

Full of spirit. Synonyms: full of life, lively. "A vital and charismatic leader" , "This whole lively world"

Manifesting or characteristic of life. "Vital signs"

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... In this very matter of the State, for example, we are dealing with an organization of individuals, and if our way of talking about it makes us overlook the flesh and blood of which it is composed, the other way may obscure in our minds the vital differences introduced by the very fact of organization. The Germans have often seen the wood more clearly when the Englishman was more careful to distinguish and name the trees. So I cannot doubt that it will prove in the end to have been good for us to have been compelled ...

— The Unity of Civilization • Various

... to vital sea lanes through South China Sea linking Indian and Pacific Oceans; two parts physically separated by Malaysia; almost an enclave ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... generation that is represented in these two texts as void of faith in the Son of Man, and as credulously giving heed to impostors. Unbelief and superstition are closely allied. Religion is so vital a necessity, that if the true form of it be cast aside, some false form will be eagerly seized in order to fill the aching void. Men cannot permanently live without some sort of a faith in the Unseen, but they can ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... their own way. The friends of General McClellan were so anxious to secure his nomination and to conciliate the opposition that they studiously avoided provoking any conflict with the predominant peace sentiment. The substance and vital spirit of the platform were contained in the second resolution as follows: "That this Convention does explicitly declare as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... for Schwann not a morphological concept at all, but a physiological; the cell was a dynamical, not a statical unit. Cell-formation was the process at the back of all production of life, and cells were the centres of all vital activity. Each cell was itself an organism, and its life and activities were to some extent independent of the lives and activities of all the other cells. The multicellular organism was a colony of unicellular organisms, and its life was a sum of the lives of its ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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