alife

See also: Alife, ALife, aLife, a-life, A-Life, and A-life

English

Etymology 1

Compare lief (“dear”).

Adverb

alife (not comparable)

(obsolete) On one's life; dearly.
- c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, OCLC 1084827221, Act II, scene ii, page 50:
  Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of artificial life.

Noun

alife (uncountable)

Alternative form of A-life

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alife in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Alfie, Faile, alief, faile

Middle English

Adjective

alife

Alternative form of alyve

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