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ad vivum

American  
[ahd wee-woom, ad vahy-vuhm] / ɑd ˈwi wʊm, æd ˈvaɪ vəm /

adverb

Latin.
  1. to that which is alive.


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They were written ad vivum, as it were, not from worked-up notes or embellished recollections.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Who, to use a Baconian expression, could have depicted man and all his passions more ad vivum?

From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.

The likeness is drawn ad vivum: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought He summons up remembrance of things past.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

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