| vigil | 1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. "Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months." "Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them." (Addison) 2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. "So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned." (Milton) "Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate." (Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard)) 3. Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. "He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, "To-morrow is St. Crispian."" (Shak) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. <botany> Vigils, or Watchings, of flowers, a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals as certain hours of the day. Origin: OE. Vigile, L. Vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. Wake: cf. F. Vigile. See Wake, and cf. Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette, Vegetable, Vigor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| vigilambulism | A condition of unconsciousness regarding one's surroundings, with automatism, resembling somnambulism but occurring in the waking state. Origin: L. Vigil, awake, alert, + ambulo, to walk about (05 Mar 2000) |
| vigilance | Wakefulness, watchfulness, arousal. Origin: L. Vigilantia (18 Nov 1997) |
| coma vigil | Subacute or chronic state of altered consciousness, in which the patient appears alert intermittently, but is not responsive, although his/her descending motor pathways appear intact; due to lesions of various cerebral structures. Synonym: coma vigil. (05 Mar 2000) |
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a period of sleeplessness the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) watch: a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
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| vigilance |
watchfulness: the process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue" watchfulness: vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble"
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a virtue, is alert watchfulness. Constant vigilance is a keynote of life. Success comes at the price of an eternal vigilance that neither slumbers nor sleeps. "Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil [of self] walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."
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an ambulatory automatism resembling somnambulism but occurring in the waking state.
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Akinetic mutism.
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| vigil | a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe |
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| vigil | a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival) |
| vigil | a period of sleeplessness |
| vigil | a candle lighted by a worshiper in a church |
| vigil | a candle lighted by a worshiper in a church |
| vigil | vigilant attentiveness |
| vigil | the process of paying close and continuous attention |
| vigil | a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist |
| vigil | member of a vigilance committee |
| vigil | carefully observant or attentive |
| vigil | member of a vigilance committee |
| vigil | the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws |
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