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/lˈɪvɪŋ stoʊn/ 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 stone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Living stone" Quotes from Famous Books

... chief, be used as a means. If I find my chief principle in bodily penance, I build the city of my soul upon the sand, so that each little breeze throws it to the earth, and no building can be erected on it. But if I build upon the virtues, founded upon the Living Stone, Christ sweet Jesus, there is no building so great that it will not stand firmly, nor wind so contrary that it can ever ...

— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa

... silence. He'd listen to his father telling, and my John, being a hopeful man, never failed to hint that a few shillings would help us over a difficult week and so on; but Rupert only listened. My John, you see, was one of they unfortunates stricken with the rheumatism that turns you into a living stone, so his usefulness was pretty undergone afore he reached sixty and but for my little bit, saved in service, and an occasional food-offering from my daughter's husband, it would have gone hard with us. This my eldest son well understood and often the tears would come ...

— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts