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Living   /lˈɪvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Live  v. t.  
1.
To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
2.
To act habitually in conformity with; to practice. "To live the Gospel."
To live down, to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to live down slander.


Live  v. i.  (past & past part. lived; pres. part. living)  
1.
To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. "Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will... lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live."
2.
To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully. "O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions!"
3.
To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside; as, to live in a cottage by the sea. "Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years."
4.
To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc. "Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water."
5.
To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness; as, people want not just to exist, but to live. "What greater curse could envious fortune give Than just to die when I began to live?"
6.
To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
7.
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith. "The just shall live by faith."
8.
To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; with on or by; as, to live on spoils. "Those who live by labor."
9.
To outlast danger; to float; said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm. "A strong mast that lived upon the sea."
To live out, to be at service; to live away from home as a servant. (U. S.)
To live with.
(a)
To dwell or to be a lodger with.
(b)
To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.


noun
Living  n.  
1.
The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence. "Health and living."
2.
Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living. " A vicious living."
3.
Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate; as, to make a comfortable living from writing. "She can spin for her living." "He divided unto them his living."
4.
Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably. "There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases."
5.
The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives. (Eng.) "He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living"


adjective
Living  adj.  
1.
Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.
2.
Active; lively; vigorous; said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. " Living hope. "
3.
Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; opposed to stagnant.
4.
Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. "Living light."
5.
Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live. "Then on the living coals wine they pour."
Living force. See Vis viva, under Vis.
Living gale (Naut.), a heavy gale.
Living rock or Living stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. " I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut out of the living rock."
The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive.





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"Living" Quotes from Famous Books



... things to run wild." It has let loose the wandering, masterless, dangerous virtues, and has insisted that not one or another of them shall run wild, but all of them together. The ideal of wholeness which Matthew Arnold so eloquently advocated, is not a dead mass of theories, but a world of living things. Christ will put a check on none of the really genuine elements in human nature. In Him there is no compromise. His love and His wrath are both burning. All the separate elements of human nature are in full ...
— Among Famous Books • John Kelman
... Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, and became an ardent partisan of the Reformers. He laid aside his monastic habit, and, as he himself puts it with characteristically brutal violence, "that I might never more serve so execrable a beast, I took to wife the faithful Dorothy." He obtained the living of Thornden, Suffolk, but in 1534 was summoned before the archbishop of York for a sermon against the invocation of saints preached at Doncaster, and afterwards before Stokesley, bishop of London, but he escaped through the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various
... at night for no one." So they laid hands on the horse and harnessed it to a gig. All night long they drove in what they supposed was the direction of the Prussian outposts, trumpeting occasionally like elephants in a jungle. In the morning they found themselves in a desert, not a living soul to be seen, so they turned back towards Paris, got close in to the forts, and started in another direction. Occasionally they discerned a distant Uhlan, who rode off when he saw them. On Friday ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... Every living creature seemed to be holding its breath in anxious suspense, but Ulrich once more laughed joyously, then bracing his bare knee against a bundle ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... steal into the sleeping chamber of Alpin and so deal with him that he would never again waken to claim his dead father's lands. Roderic had learned from the Lady Adela that her younger son, Kenric, was but a boy of sixteen, living with the learned abbot of St. Blane's, and to the wicked earl of Gigha it seemed that Kenric might be disposed ...
— The Thirsty Sword • Robert Leighton


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