Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lively manner; briskly; vigorously.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In a lively manner.

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  • adverb In a lively manner.

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Examples

  • The baseballs of today are about 50%-60% more livelily than when Babe Ruth played.

    The Politics of Hatred, Bigotry and Distraction/Diversion, and Barry Bonds 2007

  • After a little pause, more livelily affected with their affliction than with his own success he sent Leonnatus to them to let them know Darius was not dead, and that they need not fear any harm from Alexander, who made war upon him only for dominion; they should themselves be provided with everything they had been used to receive from Darius.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • I think nothing can be clearer than these two places; nor is it possible for the wit of man to invent expressions so fully and livelily to set out the thing we intend, as it is in both these places by the Holy Ghost.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Not only would such an excitement have been insufficient to waken up the new energies still dormant in him, but that consciousness of his own errors, which was for ever livelily present in his mind, would, under such circumstances, have been left, undisturbed by any unjust provocation, to work its usual softening and, perhaps, humbling influences on his spirit.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 Various

  • "That's your fancy," I answered livelily; but not without the fear that internal mortification was ensuing.

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

  • King Louis le Bien-Aimé, the obscure and mischievous imbroglios in Spain, and finally his aggrandizement and his flame-lit death, as du Maillot, say, records these happenings: and one finds therein the outline of an impelling hero, and laments that our traffic must be with a stolid and less livelily tinted Bulmer.

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Comprehension is the grave of sympathy; scratch deeply enough and you will find not any livelily-coloured Tartarism, but just a mediocre and thoroughly uninteresting human being.

    The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Instead of echoing Dirkovitch’s sigh of regret, it is sad to record that the White Hussars livelily exhibited unchristian delight and other emotions, hardly restrained by their sense of hospitality.

    The Man Who Was 1907

  • Instead of echoing Dirkovitch's sigh of regret, it is sad to record that the White Hussars livelily exhibited un-Christian delight and other emotions, hardly restrained by their sense of hospitality.

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Instead of echoing Dirkovitch's sigh of regret, it is sad to record that the White Hussars livelily exhibited un-Christian delight and other emotions, hardly restrained by their sense of hospitality.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

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  • This adverb doth not trip lightly off the tongue.

    February 19, 2011