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/lˈɪvɪŋ rɑk/ Listen

adjective

Living adj.

Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.

Active; lively; vigorous; said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. " Living hope. "

Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; opposed to stagnant.

Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. "Living light."

Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live. "Then on the living coals wine they pour."

Living force. See Vis viva, under Vis.

Living gale (Naut.), a heavy gale.

Living rock or Living stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. " I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut out of the living rock."

The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive.

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Etymology of 'Living rock'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Living rock" Quotes from Famous Books

... this folly by force of honesty, which is what saves from folly in dialectic. He built his whole science precisely on that intent which the sophists ignored; he insisted that people should declare sincerely what they meant and what they wanted; and on that living rock he founded the persuasive and ideal sciences of logic and ethics, the necessity of which lies all in free insight and in actual will. This will and insight they render deliberate, profound, unshakable, and consistent. Socrates, by his genial midwifery, helped men to discover the truth and ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... but, on the other hand, I am humiliated by the knowledge of what texture a great deal of my reputation is made. Sometimes I am even confounded with Graves, whom, as an author, I detest; my "Tin Trumpet" being ascribed to him, and his "Drippings from the Living Rock" being admired as mine! At such times, it is very difficult to preserve my incognito. I have wondered that nobody ever reads the truth in my ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various

... at the summit of affairs is the ideal world of poets.... Other aim in this earth we have none. That we all reverence "great men" is to me the living rock amid all rushings down whatsoever. All that democracy ever meant lies there, the attainment of a truer Aristocracy or Government of the Best. Make search for the Able man. How to get him is the ...

— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol

... vicinity of the new capital; palaces were erected, surpassing those of the old city in architectural beauty; dagobas were raised, nearly equal in altitude to the Thuparama and Ruanwelli, and temples and statues were hewn out of the living rock, the magnitude and beauty of whose ruins attest ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... there lives a hermit, a wonderful man who has hewn out of the living rock a tiny chapel, a store-room, and a passage leading to the chapel. He has only just completed it, and we inscribed our names in his new book as ...

— The Land of the Black Mountain - The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro • Reginald Wyon

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