liveningadj.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 451 They saw the light of Phœbus lyuening face.

1654 R. C. Harmony of Muses sig. A1^v As Sol invested in his best Array, Takes not, but gives more glory to the day, With's livening Beams gladding the teeming Earth.

1705 W. Elstob in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 107 Help'd by y^e livening Virtue of y^e Sun.

1796 T. Townshend Poems 33 Her eyes emit th'inspiring ray, More livening than celestial day.

1864 A. H. Morrison in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. VII. iii. 48/2 That glorious sun, whose livening ray Sheds o'er Columbia's sons the light of freedom's day.

1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree (1985) vii. 49 ‘Dancing’, he said, ‘is a most strengthening, livening [Reinstating MS reading], and courting movement; 'specially with a little beverage added.’

1949 W. J. Ong in N. S. J. Weyland & R. V. S. J. Schoder Immortal Diamond iv. 163 There was the case of Milton, who as a young man had, in Comus, trafficked in the livening rhythms of the stage.

1974 School Rev. 83 130 Adults would also benefit because they would experience a ‘livening’ effect in what have become dull and routine work situations.

1999 M. B. Pratt Walking back up Depot St. 20 The acorn was brown, cracked at one end like a hatching egg by a root or a sprout, a tongue tasting rain in the livening dirt.

1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell I. i. 3 The blackcocks..lift their necks in the livening heather.

1983 A. Manucy Menéndez 9 The sails were loosed in the promise of a livening breeze.

1999 F. Griffiths in D. Vidas & W. Østreng Order for Oceans iv. xviii. 256 In the circumpolar North, transboundary fluxes of pollutants, the livening associations of aboriginal peoples, transfers of precedent-setting ‘best practice’..all require..a regional frame of reference.

2000 J. Fox Macnamara's Irish Colony vii. 156 On July 19th the livening town of Monterey, which had never known such international attention, saw a squadron of 120 trappers..ride through.