Interjection

1. Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).

Verb

1. To cheer or applaud.
   • 1841, Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas

     ...the people clapped and vivaed, groaned and hooted, as they were pleased or disappointed, until at length the intense excitement began to subside...

   • 1859, The Atlantic Monthly

     The next evening Paine went to the theatre. The state-box had been prepared for him. The house rose and vivaed as he entered.

   • 1857, George Payne R James, Leonora d'Orco

     ...did you not hear how the beasts last night were cheering and vivaing those French heretics?

Verb

1. To subject to an examination of this kind.
   • 1931, Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years

     I was vivaed by Charles Cannan, who was then a Fellow of Trinity...

   • 1972, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

     Throughout his life, he took college responsibilities seriously, he came to All Souls whenever possible on weekends, he vivaed or interviewed candidates...

   • 2009, Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms

     My doctoral thesis was vivaed three years before the publication of the revised and expanded edition of Richard H. Popkin's work...