[Ads-l] Blive

[Chris Waigl]

Oh, and also of belive, adv. and adj. "Now Scottish and English regional."
Also low frequency and with a bunch of definitions, including "with little
semantic content". Mostly something like "before long, at once,
immediately".

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 3:33 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

> I should say, with a date of 1600 attached.
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 3:33 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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>> It's in there as a spelling variant of believe (v.). Do you want all the
>> definitions?
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>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 3:02 PM David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi, can someone with access please tell me if "blive" is in the OED and,
>>> if so, it's definition?
>>> Thanks,
>>> DAD
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