Vchement: great: vrgent: sharpe: fierce: earnest. Vehemens causa ad obiurgandum. Ter. A verie great cause to rebuke one. Exordium dicendi vehem ens & pugnax. Cic. Earnest and sharpe. Inflammari acri & vehementi quadam incitatione. Cicer. Literæ vehementes. Cic. Earnest and sharpe. Lupus vehemens. Hora. Metu vehementi commota mens. Lucr. Vchemens feroxq; natura. Cice. An rager and fierce, &c. Opera vehemente minister. Hor. Oratio vehemens & atrox, Cui oratio lenitatis & mansuetudinis opponitur. Cic. Paulus vehemens. Col. Verie strong. Violentia vehemens. Lucret.

I. Lit.: vehemens in utramque partem, Menedeme, es nimis, Aut largitate nimiā aut parsimoniā, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 31: Galba non in agendo solum, sed etiam in meditando vehemens atque incensus, Cic. Brut. 22, 88: in alios, id. Sull. 31, 87: vehemens feroxque naturā, id. Vatin. 2, 4; with severus (opp. lenissimus), id. Cat. 4, 6, 12; with inexorabilis, id. Sull. 31, 87; with dissolutus, id. Verr. 2, 5, 40, 104; with acer, id. Caecin. 10, 28; with fortis, id. Off. 1, 28, 100: vehemens lupus et sibi et hosti Iratus pariter, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 28: canis, Phaedr. 2, 3, 1.—Of abstract things: acer et vehemens incitatio, Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183: genus orationis vehemens atque atrox, id. ib. 2, 49, 200: vehemens et pugnax exordium dicendi, id. ib. 2, 78, 317: vehemens et aspera quaestio, Quint. 5, 10, 113: vehemens et grave senatusconsultum, Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 3. —

II. Transf., in gen., active, forcible, vigorous, powerful, mighty, strong: satis vemens causa ad objurgandum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 123: Arcturus signum sum omnium acerrimum: Vehemens sum exoriens: quom occido vehementior, Plaut. Rud. prol. 71: imber, Lucr. 6, 517: vehementior cursus fluminum, Quint. 9, 4, 7: vehementissimus cursus, Hirt. B. G. 8, 15: fuga, id. ib. 8, 48: ictus, Lucr. 6, 311: pilum ... vehementius ictu missuque telum, Liv. 9, 19, 7: impetus, Amm. 19, 11, 15: brassica ... tenui suco vehementissima, very powerful, very efficacious, Cato, R. R. 157, 2: medicamentum efficacius et vehementius, Scrib. Comp. 70: vitis vehementioribus statuminibus impedanda est, stronger, Col. 4, 16, 2: vitis vehemens multaque materia frondens, vigorous, id. 3, 1, 5: palus, thick, stout, id. 4, 12, 1: violentia vini, Lucr. 3, 482: vis frigorum aut calorum, Plin. 17, 24, 37, 235; cf.: vis in oratione vehementissima, Quint. 9, 4, 13: vehementior lethargus, Plin. 20, 22, 87, 238: dolor capitis, id. 24, 9, 38, 62: usus strigilis, Suet. Aug. 80: argumentum vehementius, Quint. 7, 6, 7: conviva salibus vehemens intra pomoeria natis, Juv. 9, 11.

I. (Acc. to vehemens, I.) Eagerly, impetuously, ardently, violently, earnestly, vehemently, etc.: vehementer irata, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 64; id. Merc. 5, 2, 82: vos credere hoc mihi vehementer velim, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 39: se agere, Cic. Phil. 8, 5, 16: quae vehementer, acriter, animose fiunt, id. Tusc. 4, 23, 51: vehementer eos incusavit, Caes. B. G. 1, 40: commotus, id. ib. 1, 37.—Comp.: insectari aliquem vehementius, Cic. Lael. 16, 57: nisi alicui vehementius minari, id. Verr. 2, 4, 66, 149: vehementius equos incitare, Caes. B. C. 2, 41.—Sup.: vehementissime contendere, Caes. B. C. 3, 17: proeliari, Auct. B. G. 8, 30: vehementissime sibi animum ad virtutem adcendi, Sall. J. 4, 5. —

II. (Acc. to vehemens, II.) Strongly, forcibly, powerfully, exceedingly, extremely, very much: fluctuare video vehementer mare, Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 12: astringere manus, id. Capt. 3, 5, 9; cf. id. Curc. 4, 4, 12; id. Mil. 2, 2, 50: vehementer id retinebatur, Cic. Rep. 2, 32, 56: hoc te vehementer etiam atque etiam rogo, id. Att. 16, 16, D: displicere, id. ib. 13, 21, 3: quod vehementer ad has res Attinet, Lucr. 4, 29: (res) vehementer ad me pertinet, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10: vitium vehementer effugere, Lucr. 4, 823.— Comp.: ingemere vehementer, Cic. Rep. 6, 12, 12.—Sup.: se vehementissime exercere in aliquā re, Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 152: probare, Licin. Calv. ap. Charis. p. 198 P.