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Being alive; having life; as, a living creature.

A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.

In a living state. Sir T. Browne.

The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God.

Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites.

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogen…

reign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

th this city Jericho. Josh. vi. 26. The high priest . . . said . . . I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ. Matt. xxvi. 63. The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall.

Advowson. [Obs.] The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson.

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Maintenance; means of living.

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

A race of giants living in Palestine.

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force…

Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. The admirable structure of animate bodies. Bentley.

ef that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. Tylor.