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Definition of Be active

1. Verb. Be in a state of action. "She is always moving"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Be Active

Literary usage of Be active

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1856)
"be active. We need but turn to the Florist, and see the wonderful effect produced by thi» system on the rose, to stimulate and encourage us. ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"One passage in it has been much relied upon, wherein he says he is going to Williams (which the prosecutor says is trance), and that he means to be active ..."

3. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1874)
"In regard to the manner of their signification, some have supposed tho one to be active and tho oilier to be passive ; some have supposed the participle in ..."

4. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"It be active yourself, that makes you want requested me to call at the office imme- to be near it. Especially activity that is diately. ..."

5. Brown's Grammar Improved: The Institutes of English Grammar Methodically by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1875)
"In regard to the manner of their signification, some have supposed the one to be active and tho other to be passive; some have supposed tho participle in ..."

6. The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., Now Fully Collected, with Selections from by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart (1863)
"And though we find many instances of the application of active verbs to things which we now believe not to be active, this ought to be ascribed to men's ..."

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