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  • adjective Obsolete spelling of alive.

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Examples

  • I was returned out of the valley aliue, they reuerenced me much, saying that I was baptised and holy, and that the foresayd bodies were men subiect vnto the deuils infernall, who vsed to play vpon citherns, to the end they might allure people to enter, and so murther them.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • This valley conteineth in length seuen or eight miles at the least; into the which whosoeuer entreth, dieth presently, and can by no meanes passe aliue thorow the middest thereof: for which cause all the inhabitants thereabout decline vnto the one side.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • And for this cause, when they, purposing to inuade anie region, are threatned by the inhabitants thereof to be slaine, they doe, to this day, answere: in old time also our whole number besides being slaine, we remayned but seuen of vs aliue, and yet notwithstanding we are now growen vnto a great multitude, thinke not therefore to daunt vs with such brags.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • But Chingis and the residue that remained aliue, fled home into their countrey: And hauing breathed him a little, he prepared himselfe to warre, and went forth against the people called Huyri: These men were Christians of the sect of Nestorius.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • In this country also dead men are burned, and their wiues are burned aliue with them, as in the city of Polumbrum above mentioned: for the men of that country say that she goeth to accompany him in another world, that he should take none other wife in marriage.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Who at the last, the weather being changed, & the winds blowing at the North, being transported again to the shoare, in this their ship of ice, haue returned home in safety: some of which number are aliue at this day.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Who, albeit there was a league betweene them, would in no case condescend vnto Canutus his bloody request, but sent them vnto Salomon46 the king of Hungarie to be nourished and preserued aliue.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Schalholt and afterward for certaine bolde attempts being taken by one Thorualdus de Modruuollum (as it is reported) and a great stone being bound to his necke, hee was cast aliue into the riuer of Schalholt, (which taketh name of the bridge) and was there strangled.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Schalholt and afterward for certaine bolde attempts being taken by one Thorualdus de Modruuollum (as it is reported) and a great stone being bound to his necke, hee was cast aliue into the riuer of Schalholt, (which taketh name of the bridge) and was there strangled.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Who at the last, the weather being changed, & the winds blowing at the North, being transported again to the shoare, in this their ship of ice, haue returned home in safety: some of which number are aliue at this day.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

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