Vive

//vaɪv// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    lively, animated obsolete

    "1890, Samuel Harvey Reynolds, Introduction The Essays of Francis Bacon the French King, when by a vive and forcible persuasion he moved him to a war upon Flanders"

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Etymology

From Latin vivus. Compare French vif. See vivid.

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