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Liv"ing (lĭv"ĭng), a. [From Live, v. i.] 1. Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.
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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. ” Wyclif.
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3. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.
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4. Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. “Living light.” Shak.
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5. Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.
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Then on the living coals wine they pour. Dryden.
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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.” Moore. -- The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive.
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Liv"ing, n. 1. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence. “Health and living.” Shak.
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2. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living. “ A vicious living.” Chaucer.
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3. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate; as, to make a comfortable living from writing.
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She can spin for her living. Shak.
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He divided unto them his living. Luke xv. 12.
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4. Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
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There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases. L' Estrange.
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5. The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives. [Eng.]
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He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living Macaulay.
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