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Blive

//blaɪv// adv, verb

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    quickly; forthwith obsolete

    "“Perdy, ſir knight,” ſaide then th’ enchaunter blive […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of belive ("to remain"). alt-of, alternative, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 2

From Middle English blive (“actively, vigorously, eagerly, gladly, quickly, at once”), with unsyncopated alternative form bilive. The adverb is from a contraction of by /bi + live (dative form of lyf, "life"), literally, "by life".

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