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VIVENCY. 270 VIVID.
numy goodly examples \iuety described and Huishely set |
forth in histories before hisface? 1593 B. Haksks PariJuno- 1
fMiir Partk. Sonn. xxv, If she viveiy Could see my sorrow's j
maze, which none can tread. i6m B. Jonson New Inn
Argt. 77 Love!.. describing the effects of Love, so viveiy,
as she. .confesseth herself enamoured ofhim. 1631 — Magn.
Ltuly II. [i.l viL Chornst If I see a thing viveiy presented
on the stage. 1663 Blair Antobiog. viu (1848) 97, I. supposed
the thing had been actually done, when it was so viveiy
represented unto me. 1673 O. Walker Edttc. 124 So Polus
the Actor, that he might more viveiy represent the grief of
a Father upon the b(^y of his deceased Son, brought in an
Urn the a^bes of his own Son newly dead. 1789 Ross
HtUnore (ed. 3) 6g But gin ye like to ware the time, then
ye How a" the matter stoode, shall viveiy see.
Vivency (vai-vensi). rare, [f. L. viv-h-e to
live + -KNCT.] Manifestation of the principle of
food, sustenance, substantive use of vivre to live].
Food, provisions, victuals, eatables.
Only Sc. till the 19th century ; its later literary currency
is probably due to iis frequent occurrence in the Waverley
Novels.
a. 1536 Qt;ct:M Margaret in St. Papers Hen. VIII (x^^d)
V. 43 pa ma be portative be wattyr for carying of Jjar
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veveres and uthyres necyssares. a 1578 Linoesav (Pitscottie)
Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 78 Ane armicweill furnischit
witht all kynd of weweris and raunitioun. 1609
Skene Reg, Ma^., Stat. Rob. /, 20 b, He sail cumcweill
furnished with siluer to bye vievers for his sustentation.
^. 1551 AV^. Privy Council Scot. I. 114 The greil..derth
. .of all kynd of victuallis and viveris. 1582-8 Hist. James
VI (1804) 168 The stoir of thair victualles being daylie
scand, they directit, as afore, sum horsmen to scour the
fields for viuers. 1622 in 10//1 Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm.
App. I. io3 Viuers are very chepe heere and thay are dere
with the enimy. 1725 Records 0/ Elgin (New Spald. CI.
1903) I. 420 The prices of fyring, fewell, fisli, flesh and other
vivers are latelie arisen to an exorbitant bight. 1756 Mrs.
Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club) 149 Every
thing of vivers is dear in Holland but vegetables. 18x4
Scott Wav. xlii, I'll join you at three, if the vivers can
tarry so long, i860 Motley Netherl. xiiL (1868) II. 164 He
bitterly complained of the unwillingness of the countrypeople
to furnish vivers, waggons, and other necessaries.
1887 Beattv.Kincston Music .y Manners II. 18 Vou shall
have your beer, vivers, and tobacco cheap.
fig. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 87 This is our
viuers during the pilgracnedg of this transitorie Uf.
Vives (v3i-vz), sb, pU Also 6 vyves, 6-8
vluea, 7 uiues, vies. [Aphetic form of AviVES.
Cf. Fives ^, Vees 1, and Yves.] Hard swellings
life ; vitality.
16^ Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 11. i. 55 Not in a distinct
and indisputable way of vivency, or answering in all points
the properties or affections of plants. [1656 Blount
Glosiogr.y Vrvtncyy a living, or injoying life. 1755 Johnson,
vivency^ manner of supporting or continuing life, or
vegetation.] 18*3 Ntw Monthly Mag. VII. 312, I used
to enjoy a spring day, its redolence, its vivency, itsthrilling
sensations of pleasure.
Vi"V6r ^. Now dial, or Obs, Forms : 4
viuere, 5 vyvere, wywere ; 4-5 viuer (5 vever,
Sc. wewar), 5 vyuer, 6 vyver, 9 viver. [a. AK.
viver^ OF. (also mod.F.) vhner ( = Sp. vivero^
Pg. viveiro), ad. L. vivarium Vivarium.] A fishpond.
a 1300 Cursor M. 13764 pis ilk water als J>e stori sais,
Was miket renumed in ^a dais, Als it war a gode viuere
\prtnted vinere]. c 1330 Durham Ace, Roils (Surtees) 519
fn j fossato facto de Molend[ino] usque le viuer, vij^. \\\d.
c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints ii. {Paul) 344 Sanct paulis bed eftir
hisdiscese In a depe vewar warpit was. c 1400 Maundev.
(Roxb.} xxiiL 105 Withouten i>aim er many vyuers and
stankes, whare on er many fewles of riuer. c%^