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VOGIE.
«*SS J- R- Leifchild Cemwall Mints 278 Vugh, or vfgal
..a cavity. i86o Worcestkr (citing Ansted), VogU.
Vog^e (v«»'gi), a. Sc. Also 8 vougy, 9
vogey. [Of obscure origin.]
1. Vain, proud, conceited.
l7to Ramsay Efist. Hamilton Answ. II. ii,
' Whbht ',
quoth the vougy jade. i;88 Buens My Hcggic 4 My only
beast, I had nae mae, And vow but I was vogie ! 1789
Ross HeUninrt (ed. 3) 112 Of your consent, he says, 1 m
mair nor fain. And vogie that I can ca' you my ain. 1830
Galt Lamit r.vii. xi. (1849) 350, I was somewhat vogie
of the valour I had shown her so handsomely off-hand.
2. Merry, cheerful, delighted, gay.
171S in Hogg JacoKtc Relics (1819) 8t We took a spring,
and danc'd a fling, And wow but we were vogie ! 01774
FracussoN Cii to Bee Poems (1845) 18 The Muse Scuds
ear' and heartsome owre the dews, Fu vogic and fu biythc
10 crap The winsome flowers frae nature s lap. l8a» Oalt
Provost xlii. Many among us thought. .that we had got a
great catch, and they were both blythe and vogie when he was
chosen. 1896 in Proudlock BorderlandMuse 323 He s harmless
as yon vogie lamb That loups beside its sleeping dam.
II Vojft (v#rt, i5-(i). Also 7 vooght, vaught.
[a. G. vogt (and Du. voogd, t voogt), MHG. voget,
OHG./pga/, ad. med.L. vocat-us : cf. Vocate .r*.]
A stevrani, bailiff, or similar official.
1694 Pens Trmi. Holland «; Gertn. 91 The Inspector of
the Calvinists hath inioined the Vooght, or chief Officer,
not to suffer any preaching to be among our Friends. Ibid.
100 The Vaught or chief Officer. 176a tr. Buscking s Syst.
Geog. IV. 252 He acknowledged them to be hereditary vogts
of his church. 1874 Stubbs Const. Hist. I. iii. 57 The
righu of the archbishop being guarded by an advocatus or
vogt,.. the state was governed by its own landrath.
Voghte, obs. variant of Vault sb."^
Vogfne (v^ug), ib. Also 6 vog(e, Sc. wogue,
7 voag, vouge. [a. F. vogue rowing, course,
success, f. voguer, ad. It. vogare to row. So It.
and Pg. voga, Sp. boga.']
I. tl. The vogue, the principal or foremost
place in popular repute or estimation ; the most
pronounced success or general acceptance ; tlje
greatest currency or prevalence. Chiefly in phrases
to have, bear, carry, get (etc.) the vogue. Now Oh.
280
my errors, ..justlc me out of vogue and stand in my place.
,yj8 _ poi, Coiiversat. Introd. 42 My Book would be out
ofVogue with the first Change of Fashion. 1747 Butler
Scrm. Wks. 1874 II. 297 Corruptions of the grossest sort
have been in vogue, for many generations. 1787 Benthah
Di/. Usury x. 98 A method much in vogue was, to let the
Jews get the money . . and then squeeze it out of them as it
was wanted. i8«o W. Ikwhg Sketch Bk. I. 274 Ihe writers
whom you suppose in vogue... have long since had their
day. 184a Newman Par. Ser?n. (ed. 2) V. _ix. 141 The influenceof
some system of religion which is in vogue. 1879
Proctor PUas. IVaysSc. ii. 30 The system of lunar weather
wisdom in vogue to this day among seamen.
(b) 1687 A. LovELL tr. Tkcvenot's Trav, i. loi Letters
are in no vogue in that Country, and profound Ignorance
reigns among them. 1692 Sprat Wicked Contrivance u. 15
The Popish-Plot having been just before in full vogue there,
as well as here. 1741 Bettkrton Eng. Stage i. 8 During
this Interval, many Plays were brought upon the Sia^e
written in Heroic Rhime: and, .in 1668. .it became still m
greater Vogue. 1798 Anti'Jacohin No. 35 The following
popular song is said to be in great vogue. 1838 James
Louis XIV\ IV. 83 As the system of conversion [to the
Roman Catholic faith] was at that time in high vogue.
C. In phr. to bring ox puty to come or starts etc.,
into (or in) vogue,
a X700 Evelyn Diary 29 Nov. 1694, It had been brought
into vogue by Mr. Tudor an apothecary. 170a Addison
Dial. Medals Misc. Wks. 1736 III. 15 To bring the study
of Medals in vogue. 1750 Chestesf. X^//. ccxvul (1792)
II. 341 Without which they.. would be vilified by those
very gallantries which put them in vogue. 1768 Tucker
Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 176 What would the mathematician give
to know the newest fashions as they start into vogue, or be
let into all the scandal and tittle-tattle of the town? 1844
Thirlwall GreeceWlU. Ixii. 148 Austere doctrines.. seem
to have come into vogue in the higher circles. 1845 Ford
Handbk. Spain i, 13 Travelling m a carriage with posthorses
was brought into vogue by the Bourbons. 1876
Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 134 It had still more recently
come into vogue as the national name.
d. In phr. to give vogue (to something).
f 1688 [? Burnet] Enquiry^ into Reasons Abrog. Test 7/1
The main things that gave it Popular Vogue and Reputa.
tion with his Party. 1770 Gray Lett. Poems (1775) 385
That childish nation, the French, have given him vogue and
fashion. 1799 in Med. Jrnl. (1800) III. 14 Those artifices
that have so often given Medical Men vogue in the great
world. 'i8a4 BvRON Juan xv. xlviii, Although her birth
and wealth had given her vogue, Beyond the charmers we
have already cited. 1837 Hallam Nist. Literature 1. 1. vii.
§ 27. 402 It contains several feigned letters of the Emperor
Marcus Aurelius, which probably in a credulous age passed
for genuine, and gave vogue to the book. 1877 E. R.
Conder Basis Faith ii. 6q To give vogue to a phrase by
which he hopes to make the idea .. ridiculous.
(a) 1571 Satir. Poems Reform, xxvii. 123 Quha hes )>e
wogue \printed wogne], him all )« warld dots wew. c 1590
J. Stewart Poems (S.T S.) II. 12/24 As mychtie Monarck
rair,..He onlie hes the vog armipotent. 1643 Howell
Twelve Treat. (j66i) 290 These are the men that now have
the vogue, and. .seem to have quite swallowed up both the
King's Prerogatives, and those of the Lords. 1678 Cud-
WOKTH Intell. Syst. 17 Democritus having had for many
ages almost the general cry and vogue for Atoms. 1731
Medlev Kolbens Cape G. Hope I. 65 They have the vogue
above all the other Hottentot nations for strength and dex.
terity in throwing the Hassagaye. 1738 Observ. Brit.
Wool!) English Woollen Manufactures have had the Vogue
and Name for many Years past, all over Europe. 1788
Yt.Ktiv.i.m Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 210 He had published a
theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue.
(*) ciSioSiR J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 380 Such scornful
and such partial Persons, as have oftest possessed your
Ear and carried the Vogue in your Court. 1664 Power
Exp. Philos. 1. 47 Though Mustard-seed do carry the
Vogiie amongst the People. 1698 FrvEr/Icc. E. India f, P.
123 It bears the Vogue for altering the Blood. 1721 W.
Hamilton Wallace 152 M^Fadzean that most bloody
Rogue, Who for his Villany did bear the Vogue. 1741
Betterton Eng. Stage i. 9 Notwithstanding the Industry
of the Patentee and Managers, it seems the King's House
then carried the Vogue of the Town.
(f (1777) I. 248 "ro convince you that
fashion, vogue,, .and law, were the chief foundation of all
moral determinations. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. fy It. Notehks.
I. 154 Mr. — ..seems to have a good deal of vogue as
a sculptor. 1879 Farrar St. Paul I. 351 Astrologers, magians,
soothsayers, ..acquired such vogue, as to attract the
indignant notice of both satirists and historians.
b. In phr. in (or out of) vogue. Also with
adjs. (usually intensive), as in full vogue, etc.
(«) 1643 Chas. 1 in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 297
Though Mars be now most in voag, yet Hymen may bee
some tymes remembred. 1653 H. CcKJAN tr. Pinto's Trav.
lix. 242 The Idol which is most in vogue amongst them, and
most frequented, a 1676 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 11. iv.
(1677) 165 The same Words and Phrases that were not
used, ..in former Ages, become in Fashion, Reputation and
Vogue in another Age. 17*6 Swift Gulliver iv. xii, It is
highly probable, that such travellers, .may, by detecting
o. With possessives (or of).
a 1683 Oldham Art 0/Poetry Wks. (1686) 7 Others., Shall
be revived, and come again in force If custom please: from
whence their vogue they draw. 1737 ^* Clarke Hist. Bible
(1740) II. 316 James, in regard of his great Vogue with the
populace, forsincerity, virtue, and judgment. 1771 Smollett
/^Kw/A.C/. Let, 4 July, All these places, Bathexcepted, have
their vogue, and then the fashion changes. 1780 Miss Wilkes
in Corr. J. Wilkes {1805) IV, 298 The vogue of this employment
occasions a great many presents being made. 1835
Court Mag. VI. p. x/2 Tartan shawls have entirely lost
their vogue; they are replaced by Egyptian shawls, which
are now more fashionable than any other. 1855 N. Hawthorne
in Life Long/elloiv (1891) IL 287 No other poet
has anything like your vogue. x886 Ch, Times 730/1 Its
defects, not its merits are the source of its vogue.
H. t4. a. Natural bent or capacity. Obsr"^
1590 Sir R. Williams Disc. Warre 25 If they finde any
of great gualitie that carries a voge, to command popular
or men of war.
VOICE.
general char-
t b. General course or tendency ;
acter or condition. Obs.
1616 T. H[*wKiNs) Caussins Holy Crt. 74 They seing all
things are permitted them, do in.stantly take that vogue,
which depraued nature doth present vnio them, they follow
the track of pleasure. 1633 G. Hfhbf.bt Temple, Bunch of
Grapes i. One vogue and vein, One aire of thought usurps
my brain. 1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. cxiii. 543 The Native
..shall live gallantly.. above the ordinary Vogue of his
IJirth. i6«o Uauden Slight Healers 76 They go with the
vogue and stream of times. 170a Eng. Th^ophrnst. 195
Mens merit is generally judg'd of by the Vo^ue of the
Fortune they are in. 1729 Law .Serious C. xvli. 308 According
to the spirit and vogue of this world, whose corrupt
air we have all breath'd, there are many things that pass
for great, and honourable.
f c. Vigour or energy. Ofo.~'
1674 Ch. I, Court ofRome 5 This is at large inculcated.
with great vouge and ostentation by the Bishop of Condom.
+ 5. The approbation, approval, or popular
favour of some class of persons, etc. Oiis.
1606 BiRNiE Kirk. Buriall \y.. For many to eternize their
soone forgot memory, and to gaine the vogue of this vaine
world, hes prepared Pyramides of pomp. 1646 G. Daniel
Poems Wks. (Grosart) L 75 Wouldst Thou wooe a Feature
In a glasse?. .Or resigne what you may claime To the vogue
of vulgar {fame. 1662-3 South Serm. (1843) II. xviii. 305
A King, .not owing his Kingdom to the vogue of the populace
but to the suffrage of nature. 1681 Chetham Angler's
Vade-m. x. § i. (1689) 97 For that the Trout is the most Excellent
Fish, by the Vogue of the most curious Palates. 1720
Welton Suffer. Son of Cod W. xx. 565, I would lain
Recollect and Obtain the Universal Approbation and Vogue
in my own Favour.
t b. The current opinion or belief ; the general
report or rumour. Obs.
1626 in Birch Crt. I, Times Chas. 1 (1848) I. 131 Some
affirm the Earl of Suffolk . . goes general of the fleet. . . Captain
Pennington hath the vogue to go to his vice-admiral.
1661 Sir p. TvRiLL in Essex Rev. (1909) XVIU. 95 The
generall vogue of the towne is yt yesterday the Poriugall
match was agreed upon at the Counsell. 1685 J. Chamber-
LAVNE Cofee Tea ^ Choc. 49 Indeed 'tis the common vogue
and opinion of this Country, that there is nothing more
Soveraign then this plant. 1721 Perry Daggenh. Breach
79 The Opinion of my Assistants being urg'd, and the
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general vogue of Men that my Work was carried on in a
sufficient Manner. 1730 Swift Let. to Gay 19 Nov., The
vogue of our few honest folks here is that Duck is absolutely
to succeed Eusden in the laurel.
6. The prevailing fashion or tendency ; esp. that
which is in favour at a particular time.
1648-9 Eikon Bas. xi. (1662) 46 The common Sewer or
stream of the present vogue and humor. 1660 Stillingfu
Iren. ti. vi. § 11. (1662) 266 If Jerome .speak according to
the general vogue, this solution may be sufficient. 1834
Mabryat p. Simple Ixv, His mustachios, bad French, and
waltzing.. were quitetbe vogue. i84oSala LadyChesterf.
Pref. p. iii. An age when burlesque is the vogue.
b. Without article or with a.
1689-90 Temple Ess, Health ^ Long Life Wks. 1720 I.
283 As Diseases have changed Vogue, so have Remedies in
my Time and Observation. J738 Fielding Hist. Register
III, There is a vogue, my Lord, which if you will bring me
into, you will lay a lasting obligation on me. 1905 Westjn,
Caz. 10 June 15/3 Others. .at once took the thing up and
made it a vogue,
t Vogue, ».l Obs. [f. the sb.]
1. trans. To cry up or down.