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In an active signification; as, a word used actively.

In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.

In a coactive manner.

By counteraction.

In an inactive manner. Locke.

In a retroactive manner.

Actively. [Obs.] "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller.

To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow mi…

To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

e under All, Home, Large, Last (phrase and syn.), Length, Once, etc. -- At it, busily or actively engaged. -- At least. See Least and However. -- At one. See At one, in the Vocabulary.

be at the boiling point, to be very angry. -- To keep the pot boiling, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. [Colloq.]

Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.

Actively; quickly; nimbly. [Obs.] Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. The efficient cause is the working cause. Wilson.

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.

f the shuttle. To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.

With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince. To eat heartily, to eat freely and with relish. Addison.

One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist. [Recent]

rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively. Milton. "Overlived in this close London life." Mrs. Browning.