ad vivum
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
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.
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