Interestingly, the term was also used to describe a certain state of fetal development, at which time the fetus was thought to be truly alive. I am not positive, but this may have corresponded with the first felt movements in utero.

JBB


On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 20:35 Asia/Tokyo, Ode Coyote wrote:

n fact, "alive" is the original meaning of quick. The quick and the dead did not refer to gunslingers in the Old American West, but instead refers to "the living and the dead" as in the Bible, Acts 10:42.


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