a.
1. That lives or will live for ever.
1547. Coverdale, Old Faith, x. Wks. (Parker Soc.), I. 73. Very God and man, the only and everliving Saviour.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, I. ii. § 3. 28 (J.). The euer-liuing subiects of his [God’s] reward and punishment.
1704. Newton, Opticks (1721), 379 (J.). The Instinct of Brutes and Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, II. XV. 77. She found the ever-living gods Assembled in the halls of Jupiter.
b. fig. Of a name, fame, etc.: Immortal.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., IV. iii. 51. That euer-liuing man of Memorie, Henrie the fift.
1595. W. C[larke], in Shaks. C. Praise, 15. Everliving praise to her loving Delia.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Hum. Lieutenant, I. i. So many idle hours as here he loiters, So many ever-living names he loses.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 4. The ever-living gifts of Grecian art and architecture and letters.
2. quasi-sb.
1601. Breton, Blessed Heart, v. Wks. (Grosart), 15. While the hand of heauen is giuing Comfort from the euer-liuing?
