What does belive mean?
Belive means (intransitive, dialectal, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay..
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/bɪˈlaɪ̯v/ · verb
(intransitive, dialectal, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay..
… God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, …"
So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.
By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].
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Belive means (intransitive, dialectal, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
… God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, …"
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