life

life [-'s, lives] n

OE líf, person, body.

1. Existence; experience; mortal state of being; ability to move, breathe, and feel.
2. Vitality; viability; [fig.] sustenance; nourishment; refreshment.
3. Being; individual; person born; living entity; individual creature; [fig.] person born again spiritually.
4. Manner; living; way of being; mode of existence.
5. Phrase. “Life that is”: mortality; present time.
6. Phrase. “Life that is to be”: immortality; future time; existence of the soul after death.