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Definition of Overlives
1. overlive [v] - See also: overlive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlives
Literary usage of Overlives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"So also the vitality of the kidney may be preserved by proper precautions for a
considerable period. The organ overlives, as it is expressed in German. ..."
2. The Dial by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1841)
"He is a creative element, and revises men, times, life itself. A new world
preexists in his ideal. He overlives, outlives ..."
3. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"It crushes the tree and breaks its twigs ... it overcomes the wolf in fight, it
overlives 1 These Solomon dialogues became common in Western literature, ..."
4. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"It crushes the tree and breaks its twigs ... it overcomes the wolf in fight, it
overlives 1 These Solomon dialogues became common in Western literature, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Determined in the Several Courts of Westminster-hall, from by William Blackstone, Charles Heneage Elsley, James Clitherow (1828)
"statute provides, that if the author overlives fourteen years, TONSON the property
shall return to him: that is, it shall no longer "• Company. ..."
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