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▪ I. † beˈlive, bilive, blive, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 belífan (5 bleve). pa. tense 1 beláf, pl. belifon, 3 bilæf, -leaf, -lef, 5 bleef. pa. pple. 1 belifen, 5 blyven.
[OE. bi-, belífan:—OTeut. *bilîƀan ‘to remain over,’ in Goth. beleiban, OHG. bilîban, MHG. bilîben, blîben, OS. biliƀian, OFris. bilîva, blîva, mod.G. bleiben, MDu. *belîven, blîven, Du. blijven; f. bi-, be- + OTeut. *lîƀan ‘to remain, be left.’ Already in OTeut., the simple lîƀan appears to have been superseded by its compound bilîƀan, which takes its place in all the languages; and in most the prefix was at length syncopated to b- so as to make the compound look like a simple verb. In Ger. and Du., bleiben, blijven, remain verbs of great importance, but in Eng. belīve was at an early period confused with, and in 13th c. superseded by, its transitive derivative beleve, beleave, which finally was discarded also; so that the simple leave now remains as the only cognate of Ger. bleiben. In the 15th c., when beleve had been reduced to bleve, Caxton used the pa. tense bleef, and pa. pple. blyven, app. from Flemish, but no one followed him.]
1. intr. To remain.
c1000ælfric Exod. xxiii. 18 Ne se rysel ne belifþ oþ morᵹen. c1200Ormin 2391 Ȝho bilæf wiþþ hire frend. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2776 Ðe grene leaf..ðoȝ grene and hol bi-leaf. Ibid. 1801 He bi-lef ðor on ðe niȝt. 1297R. Glouc. 288 Þat he ssolde alyȝte, and byleue myd[h]yre al day. 1475Caxton Jason 17 b, Ther bleef no moo but tweyne. 1483― Gold. Leg. 67/2 Ther shold not haue blyuen unto nabal..one pyssyng ayenst a walle. Ibid. 383/2 There bleueth no more but I.
2. trans. (confused with beleave.) To leave.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3066 And ðat [h]ail ða bileaf sal al ben numen.
▪ II. belive, adv. Obs. exc. dial.|bɪˈlaɪv|
Forms: 3 bi-life(s, -liues, -leue, -liue, 3–6 biliue, 3–5 bliue, 4 belif, bileve, 4–5 by lyve, blyue, blyve, 4–6 beliue, 4–7 blive, 5 belyff(e, beeliue, blif, blyf, bleyve, 5–6 belyve, -life, 5–8 belyfe, 6 byliue, 9 Sc. belyve, 4– belive.
[Orig. two words, in ME. bi life, be life, be live, f. be, bí, by prep., and life, live, dat. of līf, life; lit. ‘with life, or liveliness’; cf. quick, and Fr. vif, and mod. look alive! For forms cf. alive.]
1. With speed, with haste, quickly, eagerly. (Still Sc.)
c1200Ormin 17943 He fulltneþþ nu bilife. c1205Lay. 26504 æuere þe eorles arnde biliues. Ibid. 4545 Brennes flæh bliue. 1297R. Glouc. 50 Þo Romaynes flowe bi lyue. c1300Alisaunder 1492 He wendith out of londe blive. 1375Barbour Bruce x. 238 Thai that war within the wayn Lap out belif. c1400Roland 52 They herd hym blif. c1420Chron. Vilod. 626 Also blyve as he myȝt.. go. c1460Frere & Boye 210 in Ritson Anc. Pop. P. 43 He ranne fast and blyue. c1570Thynne Pride & Lowl. (1841) 63 They al tooke hold belyve. 1613W. Browne Sheph. Pipe Wks. (1772) 25 This noise he heard, and blive he to her ran. 1836J. Mayne Siller Gun in Chambers Pop. Scot. P. (1862) 140 His father gar'd them flee for fear, And skulk belyve.
†b. as blive: as quickly as possible, immediately; = as-soon, as-tite; Fr. aussitôt. Obs.
1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xx. (1483) 66 Slee me here as blyue. c1450Lonelich Grail (Roxb.) II. 391 On hym scholde I ben venged as blyve.
†2. At once, immediately, directly. Obs.
c1220St. Marher. 3 Olibrius..beth bringen hire biuoren him bliue. a1300Cursor M. 5021 Fottes me ruben biliue. c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 625 As sone as þay arn borne, bylyue In þe water of baptem þay dyssente. c1400Roland 167 It is best I busk me blif. a1547Surrey Aeneid ii. 293 To bring the horse to Pallas' temple blive. 1563Sackville Dk. Buckhm. ii, Mark well my fall, which I shall show belive.
†b. Of order or position: Immediately, directly. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy vi. 2226, I am Eldest and heire after hym belyue. c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 250 Lande..acclyned blyve uppon the sonne.
3. This passes insensibly into: Before long, soon; ‘by-and-by,’ ‘anon.’ (Still Sc.)
1616Bullokar, Belive, by and by, anon. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. ii. ii. (1641) 142 Twentie swarme of Bees, Whilke (all the Summer) hum about the hive, And bring me Waxe, and Honey in by live. 1785Burns Cotter's Sat. Nt. iv, Belyve, the elder bairns come drapping in. 1816Scott Old Mort. 295 ‘Nearly a mile off’..‘We'll be there belive.’
¶ Like bedene, sometimes merely expletive, or for the sake of a rime.
†4. as adj. Eager; glad (perhaps by confusion for blithe). Obs.
a1400Cov. Myst. (1841) 13 Than Pylat is besy and ryth blyff, And prayth that Cryst he xuld not quelle. c1430Syr Gener. 3105 Oon told hir he was yet on liue, And she was therof ful bliue. 1651Ordinary v. iv. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 311 This buss is a blive guerdon. |