adv. phr. Obs.; also o lives, etc. [= prec., with gen. lives instead of dat. live. The gen. was also used alone: see LIFE.] In life, alive.
a. 1300. Body & Soul, in Mapes’ Poems (1841), 338. Alle the men that ben o lyves.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 22849. Þe childir þat es abortiues, þaa þat er not born o-liues.
Comb. alives-like a., living-like, lively.
1624. Bp. Mountagu, Gagg, 100. Epaphroditus was then alive; and upon recovery, alives-like.
