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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Living

Liv'ing, a.

adjective

a. 1. Having life; active; lively.

  1. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring or fountain; — opposed to stagnant.
  2. Producing action, animation, and vigor; quickening; as, a living principle; a living faith.

Living force. See VIS VIVA. — Living rock, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. “I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut out of the living rock.” T. Moore. — The living, those who are alive; living men; as, in the land of the living. The living will lay it to his heart. Eccl. vii. 2.

Liv'ing, n.

noun

n. 1. Means of subsistence; estate; livelihood.

She, of her want, did cast in all that she had, even all her living. Mark xii. 44.

He divided unto them his living. Luke xii. 12.

Sense 2. Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.

There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases. L'Estrange.

Sense 3. The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives. [Eng.]

He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living. Macauley.