Vehemens, pen. cor. vehementis, om. g. Terent.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.
Veheméntia, vehementiæ. f. g. Plin. Vehemencie: earnestnesse: greatnesse.Vehementia odoris. Plin. The vehemencie of, &c.Vehementer. Aduerb. Cice. Vehementlye: sharpelye: earnestlye: mightily: greatly: strongly.Quæ vehemÊter, acriter, animosè fiunt. Ci. With vehemÊcy.Admirari vehementer. Ci Greatly to maruaile.Aduersari vehementer.Cic.Displicet vehementissime.Cic.It verie greatly misliketh.Dolet vehementer, Ter.I am verie sorie.Excusare vehementer. Ci. Earnestly to excuse.Exercere se vehementer in aliqua re. Ci. Wyth great affection, or earnestly to exercise himselfe.Expectare vehementer literas alicuius. Ci. Fefellit vehementer. Lentulus ad Senatum. Insanire vehementer. Plau. Inuehi vehementer. Ci. Very sharply and eagerly to inueigh against one.Minari vehementer.Cic.Ad agriculturam pertinet vehementer, quòd, &c. Var. Repugnare vehementer. Ci. Vindicatum seuerè ac vehementer. Ci. Vos credere hoc mihi vehemÊter velim. Ter. I wil in anye wise that you beleeue me and trust me in this.
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vĕhĕmens (veemens, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 120 K. and H.; more freq. vēmens, Ter. And. 1, 1, 123; Cat. 50, 21; and Lucr. always, Lachm., Munro), entis, adj. [perh. Sanscr. vahis, out of, and mens; cf. vē-], very eager, violent, furious, impetuous, ardent, vehement, etc. (syn. violentus). 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
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very efficacious
, Cato, R. R. 157, 2: medicamentum efficacius et vehementius, Scrib. Comp. 70: vitis vehementioribus statuminibus impedanda est,