life (for “o' life”† Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 263 see A-LIFE; 7 is recorded first from S.)
1.
“of
life,” living Sonn. xvi.
9.
2.
(one's) “life,” in one's
lifetime Wint. I. i. 45,
V. i. 137
“I desire my life Once
more to look on him.”
3.
in asseverations and
oaths:—“for my ”
Ado III. ii. 76, LLL. V. ii. 726; “God's my ”
Ado IV. ii. 75, MND. IV. i. 210,
AYL. III. v. 43
“Od's my little
life.”
4.
embodiment of life,
living being Mac. V. vii. 31 [viii. 2] “Whiles I see lives.”
5.
soul, essence
John V. vii. 1
“the of all his
blood,”
Troil. I. iii. 385,
II. ii. 194
“the of our
design.”
6.
“my ,” my beloved, my
dearest (freq.)
Cym. V. v. 227
“My queen, my life, my
wife.”
7.
(chiefly “the ”) the living
form or model, living semblance Ado II. iii. 117 [110],
Wint. V. iii. 19
“the as lively
mock'd,”
H5 v. Chor. 5 “cannot
in their huge and proper Be here presented,”
Tim. I. i. 36, 39,
Ven. 289
“when a painter would
surpass the ;— to the ,”
with faithful or exact presentation or
reproduction Cor. III. ii.
106, Per. V. i. 247; “so with good life”
Tp. III. iii.
86.
