Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vigor

Vigor , noun

[Old English vigour, vigor, Old French vigor, vigur, vigour, French vigueur, from Latin vigor, from vigere to be lively or strong. See Vegetable, Vigil.]

1.
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
The vigor of this arm was never vain. — Dryden
2.
Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
3.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
But in the fruithful earth... His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. — Milton

Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

Vigor , transitive verb

To invigorate. [Obsolete] — Feltham