Definition of "living" []

• Possessing life: famous living painters; transplanted living tissue. (adjective)
• In active function or use: a living language. (adjective)
• Of persons who are alive: events within living memory. (adjective)
• Relating to the routine conduct or maintenance of life: improved living conditions in the city. (adjective)
• Full of life, interest, or vitality: made history a living subject. (adjective)

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• "˜If a predicate is generally true of a genus, then the predicate is also true of any species of that genus™, we can derive the conclusion ˜the capacity of nutrition belongs to plants™ using the premise ˜the capacity of nutrition belongs to all living things™, since ˜living thing™ is the genus of the species ˜plants™."
• "We can become so absorbed in making a living that we have no time _for living_."
• "And I am fully aware that once we direct our living attention this way, instead of to the absurdity of the atom, then we have a whole _living_ universe of knowledge before us."