Life, def.

[lahyf], noun, plural lives [lahyvz], adjective, verb

-noun

1. biology. The condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
2. movement, change, becoming; goal-oriented clusters of atomic material.
3. anthropology. Spirit applied to flesh. See "freedom", "pain", "overcoming".
4. pseudoHeideggerian. Unlostness, unfloatedness, authenticity; untrammeled, intimate relation to being.
5. mysticism. The state of not giving a damn, and in not giving, receiving: Abraham believed God, and so Isaac became his life, even at the crucial time.
   
6. unbridled, tear-blessed, exuberant, unspeakable thankfulness: "If the only prayer you say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough" (Meister Eckhart).
7. a person or thing that enlivens, animates. See "woman", "madness", "Lindsey", etc.
   
8. metaphor. State of electricity; becoming towards electricity.

-adjective

1. eclectic, broad, unconfined, without limit.
2. the quality of lasting: he had a life-fueled love.
3. of or pertaining to animate existence.
   

-verb

1. to backhand one's trials for the sake of a higher iridescent victory: he lived [past tense].
   
2. to leave love in one's footsteps, transcend the worry for others' eyes, to take what is given to you, to love even what causes you to stumble. See "exuberance", "God", the emanating stranger across your apartment lawn.
3. to be; I mean really, truly to be.
   
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