belive

present singular third person belives · participle present beliving · past belove · participle past beliven · alternative bilive · alternative blive · alternative bleve · alternative bileve · alternative bilave · alternative blewe

1. dialectalintransitiveotherwise obsoleteTo remain, stay.

   … God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, …"

   1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321

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   So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.

   1900 (original date: 1483), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints

comparative more belive · superlative most belive · alternative blive

1. obsolete outside ScotlandQuickly, forthwith.

   By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. ScotlanddialectalSoon, presently, before long; by and by; anon