vita-, vito-, vit- +

Weariness of life.

So that they may know you and have life.

Motto of the Sacred Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners, Wisconsin, USA.

The way, the truth, and the life.

Motto of Felician College, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Life force.

1. A brief account of someone's life.
2. A brief summary of a person's career and accomplishments.

Life is short, art is long.

It is also often quoted as Ars longa, vita brevis.

1. Living a life full of energy, enthusiasm, and a sense of purpose in which one is able both to get things going and to get things done.
2. A life characterized by vigorous activity and producing or undergoing change and development.

1. Window glass containing quartz for transmitting the ultraviolet rays of sunlight.
2. A specially prepared glass that is transparent to ultraviolet rays of the spectrum.

A vitamin antagonist; a substance that produces deficiency of a given vitamin.

1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, which were moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing the illusion of continuous motion.
2. A moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects.

Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoologyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.

The life of man without letters [learning] is death.

Motto of Derby School, U.K.

1. Relating to, or characteristic of life; such as, a vital process.
2. Essential to life; necessary to maintain life; such as, breathing, eating, and drinking are just a few of the things which are vital functions of life.

1. The theory, or doctrine, that life processes arise from or contain a non-material vital principle and cannot be explained entirely as physical and chemical phenomena.
2. The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
3. A former theory that life depends on a unique force and can not be reduced to chemical and physical explanations.

Relating to a doctrine that the processes of life are not explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry alone and that life is in some part self-determining.

1. Abundant physical and mental energy, usually combined with a wholehearted and joyous approach to situations and activities.
2. A capacity for survival or for the continuation of a meaningful or purposeful existence: We thought that the vitality of our educational institution would continue.
3. The nonmaterial force that, according to vitalism, distinguishes the living from the nonliving.