adv. [f. LIVING ppl. a. + -LY2.] In a living manner; as if living; vitally; livelily, vividly.
a. 1470. in Hist. Collect. Cit. Lond. (Camd.), 137. We … shalle ordayne for hyr governaunce of the persone of oure sayde fadyr, sykerly, lyvyngly, and honestely, aftyr the askynge of hys ryalle astate and dygnyte, by [etc.].
1577. Knewstub, Confut. (1579), 40 b. His children, heauenly, spirituall and liuingly minded.
1638. Mayne, Lucian (1664), 157. You have most livingly described the peeces in Orestes Temple.
1661. G. Rust, Origen, 79. That vital temper the Soul requires in the body she will livingly joyn with.
1680. G. Keith, Rector corrected, i. 9. That word which doth … quicken our Souls unto God, and livingly doth refresh and comfort us.
1769. Woolman, Jrnl., x. (1840), 141. The doctrine of Christ, ‘Take no thought for the morrow,’ arose livingly before me.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XX. 488. The life, yet breathing and livingly remembered, of men.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, VI. ii. A fountain still played sparkling and livingly.
1850. Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2), I. 122. It was absolutely necessary that he [Socrates] should be brought livingly before us.
1881. W. R. Nicoll, Incarnate Saviour, 24. This is not the mere history of the past: it touches us livingly.
