the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > take vigorous action > and steadily (2)
figurative. Of immaterial things: To exist, be found, have place, reside (in some specified place or quarter); to be set, fixed, or arranged in…
In various idiomatic uses (with prepositions, etc.), expressive of steady and continuous action. (Cf… to lie †at, to: to apply oneself vigorously…