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  • English Word Liturgist Definition One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy.
  • English Word Liturgy Definition An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.
  • English Word Lituus Definition A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
  • English Word Lituus Definition An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
  • English Word Lituus Definition A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.
  • English Word Livable Definition Such as can be lived.
  • English Word Livable Definition Such as in pleasant to live in; fit or suitable to live in.
  • English Word Live Definition To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
  • English Word Live Definition To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
  • English Word Live Definition To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
  • English Word Live Definition To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
  • English Word Live Definition To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.
  • English Word Live Definition To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
  • English Word Live Definition To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
  • English Word Live Definition To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
  • English Word Live Definition To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
  • English Word Live Definition To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
  • English Word Live Definition To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
  • English Word Live Definition Having life; alive; living; not dead.
  • English Word Live Definition Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.
  • English Word Live Definition Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
  • English Word Live Definition Vivid; bright.
  • English Word Live Definition Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.
  • English Word Live Definition Life.
  • English Word Live-forever Definition A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
  • English Word Lived Definition of Live
  • English Word Lived Definition Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
  • English Word Livelihed Definition See Livelihood.
  • English Word Livelihood Definition Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.
  • English Word Livelihood Definition Liveliness; appearance of life.