adv. Now Sc. or Obs. Also 5 vyvelyche; Sc. 6 uif-, vife-, viwe-, vivelie, vivly, 6–7 viuelie, -ly. [f. VIVE a. + -LY2.]
† 1. In a lively, animated or energetic manner; with lively action. Obs.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., Prol. iii. in Ashm. (1652), 118. After them vyvelyche therefor thou crave.
c. 1590. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 11. Thow fyrie vulcane … My sensis schairpe, And viwelie tham vpsteir.
1648. Polexena, IV. II. 219. He … did so vively resent it, that the most of his wounds opened againe.
1673. O. Walker, Educ. (1677), 257. Give no man just cause of offence nor resent too vively injuries towards yourself.
† b. Sharply; to the quick. Obs.–1
c. 1590. A. Hume, Poems (S.T.S.), 77/318. And sick as are with wickednes bewitched, I sussie not how viuely they be tuitched.
2. Clearly, distinctly, vividly.
1537. Cdl. Pole, in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), I. App. lxxxii. 199. There be divers places … that cannot so vively be perceived by writing as they should be by conferring the same presently with the writer.
a. 1564. Becon, Policy of War, Wks. I. 125. Whom would it not animate…, seing so many goodly examples viuely described and liuishely set forth in histories before his face?
1593. B. Barnes, Parthenophil & Parth., Sonn. xxv. If she vively Could see my sorrow’s maze, which none can tread.
1630. B. Jonson, New Inn, Argt. 77. Lovel … describing the effects of Love, so vively, as she … confesseth herself enamour’d of him. Ibid. (1632), Magn. Lady, II. [i.] vii. Chorus, If I see a thing vively presented on the stage.
1663. Blair, Autobiog., vii. (1848), 97. I supposed the thing had been actually done, when it was so vively represented unto me.
1673. O. Walker, Educ., 124. So Polus the Actor, that he might more vively represent the grief of a Father upon the body of his deceased Son, brought in an Urn the ashes of his own Son newly dead.
1789. Ross, Helenore (ed. 3), 69. But gin ye like to ware the time, then ye How a’ the matter stoode, shall vively see.
