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Definition of Blive
1. adv. Quickly; forthwith.
Definition of Blive
1. Verb. (intransitive) (alternative form of belive) (gloss "to remain"). ¹
2. Adverb. (obsolete) quickly; forthwith ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blive
1. belive [adv] - See also: belive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blive
Literary usage of Blive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Norwegian Grammar and Reader: With Notes and Vocabulary by Julius Emil Olson (1907)
"Han tor blive skuffet, he may be disappointed. Jeg beder om, at det maa blive
gjort straks, I ask that it may be done immediately. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Thou shalt gone overnight, and that blive, ... And Troilus to his paleis went
blive, So glad ne was he never in all his live, And to Pandarus rede gan all ..."
3. Trade and Politics, 1767-1769 by Clarence Walworth Alvord, Clarence Edwin Carter (1921)
"... preposed to Send an Express att his Expence therefore I agreed to itt I blive
they are in Great Want of Mony and will Write you by thire Express. ..."
4. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, Francis James Child, William Salesbury, Alexander Barclay, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Johann Winkler (1869)
"How many sows are in it ! Comic Annual, 1831, p. 82- not make sense here.
The rhyme here 27), because (f, th) and therefore (v, 1 blive means quickly, ..."
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