alife

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

English

Etymology 1

Compare lief (“dear”).

Adverb

alife (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) On one's life; dearly.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      I love that sport alife.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of artificial life.

Noun

alife (uncountable)

  1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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