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Definition[1]

vivaṭa : [pp. of vivarati] opened; laid bare; unveiled; made clear.

Source
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[2]

Vivaṭa [vi+vaṭa, pp. of vṛ: see vuṇāti] uncovered, open (lit. & fig.), laid bare, unveiled Sn 19 (lit.), 374 (fig.= anāvaṭa SnA 366), 763, 793 (=open -- minded); Nd1 96; Pug 45, 46 (read vivaṭa for pi vaṭa; opp. pihita); Vism 185 (opp. pihita); J v.434; DhA iii.79; VvA 27; PvA 283 (mukha unveiled). -- vivaṭena cetasā "with mind awake & clear" D iii.223; A iv.86; S v.263; cp. cetovivaraṇa. -- vivaṭa is freq. v. l. for vivatta ( -- cchada), e. g. at A ii.44; Sn 372; DhA iii.195; SnA 265 (in expln of term); sometimes the only reading in this phrase (q. v.), e. g. at Nd2 593. -- instr. vivaṭena as adv. "openly" Vin ii.99; iv.21.
   -- cakkhu open -- minded, clear -- sighted Sn 921; Nd1 354. -- dvāra (having) an open door, an open house J v.293 (aḍḍha˚ half open); DhA ii.74 -- nakkhatta a yearly festival, "Public Day," called after the fashion of the people going uncovered (appaṭicchannena sarīrena) & bare -- footed to the river DhA i.388.

Source
Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
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