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VAKE. 18 VALANCED. wode. $. 6 uai-, 7 vaiuoda; 7 valuod, 7-8 T&irod (7 vavoyd), 7-9 vaivode, 8 vaiwode. [Ultimately ad, older Magyar vajvoda (now vajda)., representing the common Slavonic voj{e)voda VoivoDK. The immediate source is partly mod.L. vayvoda (cf. Sp., Pg., and It. vaivoda) or F. vay* vide. See also Waywode.] A local ruler or official in various parts of south-eastern Europe (in older use esp. in Transylvania). «. 1560 Daus ir. SUidatu's Comm, 71 He had an adver- 1590 Sir sarye John Sepuse, the va>*uode of transsylvania. ^ J. Smyth Disc. !^'ea/ons 44 b, In a great baitaile fought betwixt him and that (kmous Vayuod luan Huniades Comino. 1665 Manley Grotius' Lmv C. It 'ars 579 The one [sister]^ marrj^d to the King of Poland ; the other, to Sigbmund Battor, Prince or Vayvod of I'ransilvania. 1685 Ltmd. Gms, No. 2070/2 The Vayvode Janco was drawing toscClier a great Body of Morlacks with a design to attack aonw pbce in the Province o( Bosnia. 1768 A»ft, Reg, 1. 19 Cooat Potocki. V'aywode of Kiow, had no less than ten towns, and one hundred and thirty villages, destroyed in bis own territories. /ig, 1613 Dbkker DiMth Last Will Wks. (Grosart) 111. Behemah Dornschweyn,. .cbiefe Vayuode of Vsury, fjt ymony, Bribery, Periury, ..etc. 3. 156a J. Shute tr. CambinTs Turk. Wars 7 John Uaiuoda sougbte to haue al the glorle of the victorietohim selfe. 1601 K. Johnson Kin^d. 4- Comntw. (1605) 51 The Vaiuods of Valachia, Moldauia and Transiluania hold their estates bjj vertue of this bribery. 1696 tr. Du Mont's Voy. Ltvant xix. 342 The Government of the Cities is manag'd by Five Kinds of Officers, the Bassa, Sub-Bassa, Vaivode, Cfadi and Receiver of the Customs. 1771 W, Guthrie's GeogT, (ed. 3) 114 Their ancient nobility were divided into koezes, or knazeys, boj-ars, and vaivods. 1776 Ann. Reg. n. 7 At .-Vihens. .his patrimony had suffered from the extortions of a tyrannical Vaiwode. 1833 Ellis Elgin Marbles I. 2 Lord Elgin then received very strongly expressed firmauns from the Porte, which were carried.. to the Vaivode of Athens and the Disdar of the Acropolis. trans/. 1618 BoLTOS Florus 11. xiv. (1636) 132 Andriscus. ., delivered up into our hand^ by that Vaivod, or petty King, of Thrace to whom hee had fled for succour. Vaije, southern ME. var. Fey a, Vak, obs. Sc. f. Wake v. Vakabonde, obs. f. Vacabond. tVake, f?. Obs. rare. [ad. L. z'^c-wkj.] Empty, 2600 Holland Liiy i. xxxiii. 24 Whitest it stood void and vake, the old Latines had surprised and taken it. Ibid. xxiv. vii. 513 Certeine conspiratours.. possessed themselves of a vake house, standing over a narrow lane. t Vake, vaik, v. Sc. Obs. Forms : a. 5 wake, 5-7 vake, 7 veak. ^. 5 wayk, 5-7 vaik, 6 walk, 6-7 vaick, 7 vaike. [ad. L. vaC'dre to be empty : cf. prec. So OF. and F, vaquer^ Sp. and Pg. vacar, It. vacare. With the exception of quot. 1543 in I a the use of the word is entirely Scottish : cf. Vacand///. a^l 1. inir. Of a benefice, office, or position : To become or fall vacant; also, to remain vacant or unfilled. Freq. from c 1550 to £'1650, esp. of ecclesiastical benefices. a. c 14x5 Wyntoun ChroH, v. 4110 (Cott.), Qwhen he was ded, J>an dayis nyne J>at se wakyt [IVeinyss MS. vaikit]. X4s6 Sir G. Have Law Arms (S.T.S.) 223 For and the Archebtscbopryke of Ranis or Rowan vakit, and the chanouns wald ches ane Inglisman to be archebischop. 1513 Douglas in IVks. (1874) I. p. ex, The beneficis and grete prelaceiis that wakts. 1543 Sentlecer in St. Papers Hen* Villi III. III. 485 Ther is a Statute here [at Waterfordl,..that when suche rombe shulde vake, ..they shoulde then electe and chose.. one IngUsheman. 1604 A. Seton in G. Seton Memoir (1883) iv. 57 Quhen eiuer onye place sould vake in onye maner. fr tf 1550 Lyndesav Tragedie 361 Quhen thare doith vaik ony benefyse. 1558 Kennedy Comp. Treat, in Misc. Wodrow Sec. (1844) 151 Gyf ane benefice vaick, the gret men of the realme wyll haue it ts-joSatir. Poems Re/orm. xviii. I03 Sic [a lord] as . . feiris God now sen the roume dois waik. 1639 Marq. of Hamilton Expl. Meaning Oath ^ Covenant 16 [It] also declares, that all bishopricks vaick* ing, or that shall vaick, shall be only disponed to actuall preachers and ministers in the Kirk, a 1670 Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1851) U. 204 Thus Oswall cumis bak with this ansuer, and Doctor Forbes place still vaikis. 1696 in Home Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm) 271 The Justice Clerk. .dispo^ of the Clerk to the Justice Court bis place when it vaikes. b. Of a tack or tenancy. \^%Rental Bk.Cupar^Angus{^%^
VALANCHB. 19 VALEDICTORY. «9 Oct. 533/1 A taH-masted schooner rode grandly in between the Heads, valanced with foam. t Valanche. Obs, rare. [ad. F. dial, (la) valatiche ^for F. f avalanche).'] = Avalanche. 1766 Smollett Trav. xxxviiij Scarce a ycar^ passes in which some mules and their drivers do not perish by the valanches. Valanea, obs. f. Valoxia. Valay, obs. Sc. f. Valley. Vald, obs. Sc. var. would Will v. Vald(e, ME. var. Field sb. Valdenses, -Ian, van-. Waldenses, -ian. Valdinge, obs. Sc. var. Wielding vbi. sb. Valdois, obs. var. Vaudois. + Val-dunk. Obs."^ (Meaning obscure.) 1631 Brathwait IVkimzieSt IVine-soaker 102 By this time his cause is heard, and now this val-dunke growne rampantdrunke, would fight if hee knew how. Vale (v
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VEHME. of all Other heavenly Influe
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