vivelyadv.
Now Scottish or Obsolete.† 1. † b. Sharply; to the quick. Obsolete. rare.
a. In a lively, animated, or energetic manner; with lively action. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adverb] > in a lively manner
quicklyOE
heartilya1450
vively1471
sprightlya1584
sportively1597
sprightfully1597
spiritfully?1609
lifelike1637
sprightlily1739
vivaciously1815
rattlingly1824
friskily1862
spirity1865
sparklingly1879
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy Prol. iii. in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 118 After them vyvelyche therefor thou crave.
c1590 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 11 Thow fyrie vulcane..My sensis schairpe, And viwelie tham vpsteir.
1648 Polexena iv. ii. 219 He..did so vively resent it, that the most of his wounds opened againe.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. ii. iii. 242 Give no man just cause of offence; nor resent too vively injuries towards your self.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > [adverb] > vividly
lively1561
vively1599
vividlya1677
livelily1697
1599 A. Hume Epist. to G. Montcrieff in Hymnes sig. I1 And sick as are with wickednes bewitched, I sussie not how viuely they be tuitched.
2. Clearly, distinctly, vividly.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb] > clearly visible > sharply or distinctly
brightlyOE
clearlyc1300
fairc1390
vively1537
bremely1577
in focus1785
sharply1817
trenchantly1873
eidetically1929
1537 R. Pole in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxxii. 199 There be divers places..that cannot so vively be perceived by writing as they should be by conferring the same presently with the writer.
1542 T. Becon New Pollecye of Warre sig. A.viiv Whom woulde it not animate.., seyng so many goodly examples viuely described and lyuishly set forth in histories before his face?
1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 17 If she viuely Could see my sorrowes maze which none can treade.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. Argt. Lovel..describing the effects of Loue, so viuely, as she..confesseth her selfe enamour'd of him.
a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady ii. Chorus 37 in Wks. (1640) III If I see a thing vively presented on the Stage.
a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) vii. 97 I supposed the thing had been actually done, when it was so vively represented unto me.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xi. 124 So Polus the Actor, that he might more vively represent the grief of a Father upon the body of his deceased Son, brought in an Urn the ashes of his own Son newly dead.
a1784 A. Ross Helenore (1789) 69 But gin ye like to ware the time, then ye How a' the matter stood, shall vively see.
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