Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a vivid or lively manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete In a lively manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete In a
lively manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A terricolous vively-onview this; queer and it continues to be quaky.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Howsoever, you are to pitch upon such a dumb one as is deaf by nature and from his birth; to the end that his gestures and signs may be the more vively and truly prophetic, and not counterfeit by the intermixture of some adulterate lustre and affectation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Howsoever, you are to pitch upon such a dumb one as is deaf by nature and from his birth; to the end that his gestures and signs may be the more vively and truly prophetic, and not counterfeit by the intermixture of some adulterate lustre and affectation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Howsoever, you are to pitch upon such a dumb one as is deaf by nature and from his birth; to the end that his gestures and signs may be the more vively and truly prophetic, and not counterfeit by the intermixture of some adulterate lustre and affectation.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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