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1.
vīve
adj.
9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Lively, active, mobile;—only in comb.:
argent vive
, the metal mercury, quicksilver [cp.
argent
n. & adj. (c)] (b) in a raw state, not modified to reduce chemical reactivity, unslaked;
calce vive
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