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ˈlife-blood
1. The blood necessary to life; vital blood.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 53 The weapon..deepe emperst his darksom hollow maw, And, back retyrd, his life blood forth with all did draw. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 269. 1667 Milton P.L. viii. 467. 1789 Cowper Cockfighter's Garland vii, Nor e'er had fought but he made flow The life-blood of his fiercest foe. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Good Friday, With the Saviour's life-blood wet.
2. transf. and fig. That which gives life to a man's mind, thought, action, etc.; the vital part or vitalizing influence.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. i. 29 This sicknes doth infect The very Life-blood of our Enterprise. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iv. vii, [Ovid addressing Julia] Be gon, sweete Life-bloode. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 29 His love (life blood of all his hopes). 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 35 A good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit. 1770Junius Lett. xxxvii. 180 The noble spirit of the metropolis is the life-blood of the state. 1857Willmott Pleas. Lit. xx. 110 The poetic element is the life-blood of the narrative.
b. attrib. as adj. Vital, essential. rare—1.
1641Milton Reform. ii. Wks. (1847) 16/1 All the most sacred and lifeblood laws.
3. (Also live-blood.) The popular name for an involuntary twitching of the lip or eyelid.
1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. xi. §2 (1734) 229 Pulsations from Flatulency, like what is vulgarly called the Life-Blood, in several Parts of the Body. 1754Richardson Grandison VI. 221 My upper-lip had the motion in it, throbbing, like the pulsation which we call the life-blood. 1855J. Dixon Dis. Eye 271 The orbicularis palpebrarum muscle is subject to a spasmodic twitching..popularly termed the live-blood. |