English

Adverb

a-vie ‎(comparative more a-vie, superlative most a-vie)

1. (obsolete) In rivalry. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie.