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in blood

in blood prepositional phrase: in a state of perfect health and vigour.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (archaic) In a state of perfect health and vigour.
    • If we be English deer, be then in blood:
      Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. In a blood relationship, in which one is related by blood.
    • ... his privies in blood (heirs) and privies in representation (executors and administrators). For it has not been doubted, that privies in blood and privies in representation might, after the death of the insane party, avoid his[…]1870, Joseph Story, Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America, page 225
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, blood. With blood; by losing blood.
    • Members of the foreign legion paid in blood for their new citizenship.

Questions about in blood

What does in blood mean?
In blood means in a state of perfect health and vigour.
What part of speech is in blood?
In blood is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in blood in the dictionary

  1. in between
  2. in between jobs
  3. in between times
  4. in bits
  5. in black and white
  6. in blood
  7. in bloom
  8. in book
  9. in brief
  10. in broad daylight
  11. in buckets

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