a-vie

See also: avie, Avie, avié, avíe, and à vie

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ vie.

Adverb

a-vie (comparative more a-vie, superlative most a-vie)

(obsolete) In rivalry. [16th-17th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie.

Anagrams

viae

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