a. Obs. Also 3–4 lifissh, 6 lyvish, -yshe. [f. LIFE sb. + -ISH.] = LIVING ppl. a., in various senses.
c. 1200. Ormin, 5140. Þatt tu Ne do nan ifell dede Forr lufe off nan lifisshe mann.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 93. Air … Of whos kinde his aspirementz Takth every lifissh creature.
c. 1530. trans. Erasmus’ Serm. Child Jesus (1901), 4. Christ, from whose body flodes of lyuyshe water do renne. Ibid., 39. To be a lyuyshe member of the most holy body, the church.
1542. Becon, News out of Heaven, Prol. A iij b. Yf there were true & liuish fayth, than [etc.]. Ibid., Pathw. Prayer, xxxvi. O vij b. Euerye houre oughte we to offer a lyuish prayer vnto God.
Hence Livishly adv.
1530. Palsgr., 839. Lyvysshely, au vif.
a. 1560. Becon, Chr. Knt., Pref., Wks. II. 145 b. These vertues … do liuishly shine in your Lordships daylye behauiour.
