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c1300 St. Mary of Egypt (Laud) l. 18 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 261 (MED) With spinningue and with seuwingue, hire liflode heo wan.

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 108 (MED) In þe vale of Eboir His liuelod he [sc. Adam] most swink sore.

J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) 46 We..withdrawes lyuelade fra tham that nede haues.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 331 Lanfrank..was a man þat kouþe doo no grete werkes to gete his liflode þerwiþ.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1962 Ete..Na o fouxul þat refes his liuelade.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 133 Þat þe lude myȝt haf leue lif-lode to cach.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 342 Poul..wrouȝte with hise hondis forto haue his lijflode to preche.

a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 4377 [He]..leuede..In gode prosperite & in gode hele, & w^t his trauell his lyf-lode kat.

c1480 (a1400) St. Alexis 169 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 446 Ilke day thigyt his lyf-led at þame þat passag by þare mad.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 40/2 Noe began to labouer for his lyfelode with his sones.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 504 My lyflat is bot honest chewysance.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 1104 Then must it be the Priests wages, which at that time had no other livelode.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋1 Those noursing fathers and mothers..that withdraw from them who hang vpon their breasts..liuely~hood and support fit for their estates.

1660 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 360 To gaine a bare livelihood.

1680 J. Aubrey in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) III. 401 What he did for his delight and recreation only when a boy, proved to be his livelihood when a man.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 117 A hazardous Trade to which they have bound themselves to get a Livelyhood.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 94. ¶8 He set himself to think on proper Methods for getting a Livelihood in this strange Country.

1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 297 To..restrain our own Subjects from..seeking their Livelihoods.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 4 They made a Livelyhood or Trade of it.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 192 They don't emigrate, till they could earn their livelihood..at home.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 61 Fishermen who gain their livelihood on its waters.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 118 Let each man practise one art which is to be his livelihood.

1883 Littell's Living Age 23 June 753/1 A set of portraits..of creatures the most utterly incapable of religious enthusiasm that ever made religion a livelihood.

1893 Law Times 95 4/2 There was no allegation against the mother's conduct or her means of getting a livelihood.

1929 Travel Jan. 44/3 Half a hundred Caymaneros and Spanish-speaking folk wring a scant livelihood from fish and turtle, and from handling lumber.

1959 G. L. Harding Antiq. Jordan vi. 117 A great part of their livelihood depends on a good tourist trade.

1998 D. V. Pospielovsky Orthodox Church in Hist. Russ. vi. 114 Most of his livelihood was to come from the patch of arable land attached to each rural parish, and which he had to cultivate.