Meanings
present singular third person everlives · participle present everliving · participle past everlived · past everlived
- intransitivenonstandardTo live forever; live constantly or continually; remain alive or active.
Whose fame shall everlive.
1811, Samuel McSkimin, The history and antiquities of the county of the town of Carrickfergus2 more examples
He noted that human trachoma's virus everlives in the monkey after six reinjections [...]
1949, International Organization against Trachoma, Revue internationale du trachome et des maladies oculaires des pays tropicaux et sub-tropicaux, Volume 26The one and two and three that everlives and reigns forever in three, two, and one, by nothing compassed, all-ecompassing, three times was heralded by every spirit so melodiously that anyone would find his merits fully rewarded there.
1993, Dante Alighieri, James Torrens, Presenting Paradise
Origin
Back-formation from everliving.
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