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VOTEEN.
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VOUCH.
2. Established or assigned by vote.
1644 Milton Arecf: (Arb.) 33 More gently brooking
writt'n exceptions against a voted Order, then other Courts.
t884 Pa/i Mai/ G. 2$ April loThe right hon. gentleman estimated
the expenditure, .for the voted services^54)i88,ooo.
Voteen (v^utrn). Jris/i. [prob. f. Devote j(J.
or Devotee ; the equivalent Ir. moidin is however
connected with Ir. inSidim I dedicate or devote.]
A very religious person ; a devotee.
1830-a W. Carletos Traits (1843) I. 16 Up near the altar
. .you might perceive a voteen, repeating some new prayer
or choice piece of devotion, 1856 P. Kennedy Banks of
Boro{.\%t-;) 184 One of the class that is called in Scotland
•The unco guid', and ' . *593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 57 That Sepulchre you see
is but a thing built vp by Saracens to get mony with, and
beguile votiue Christians.
2. Dedicated, consecrated, offered, erected, etc.,
in consequence of, or in fulfilment of, avow.
1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxx. §2. 126 Which votiue
Altar was erected by the Troupe of Horsemen surnamed Augusta
Goidiana. 1616 B. Jonson Poetaster, Dial. Hor, ^
Treb. 57 So that the old mans life described, was seen As in a
votive table in his lines. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv.
§ 23. 400 Those Last Dying words. . wherein he requiied hi-i
friends to offer a Votive Cock for him to ^sculapius. 170a
Addison Dial. Medals (1726) 136 Sacred to Mars these
votive spoils proclaim The fate of Asdrubal, and Scipio's
Voteens ' among ourselves. Ibid. fame, 1756-7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) H. 230 A marble
337 He had considered his neighbour a voteen andtwaddler. boat placed before the church, and said to be a votive
Voteless (v^a-tUs), a. [f. Vote j(5. + -less.] piece, as an acknowledgement for deliverance in a storm.
Having no vote. (Common from 1S80.)
1785) Mrs. Piozzi youni. France I, 152 The jewels given as
167a
votive offerings. H. More Brief Reply
1820
87 The Lay
W. Ikving Sketch Bk. I.
Courtiers, .were
233 It is a
enabled to vote, when so
pious custom,.. to many of the Reverend
honour the memory of saints
Clergy were
by votive
by lights
devices made voteless. 1866
burnt before their pictures.
Geo. Eliot F. Holt 18^1 W. Spalding Italy
xi,
'I'here was a way of using voteless miners and navvies ^ It. Isl. II.
at
343 In a third class, which embraces most of
Nominations and Elections.
the votive pictures, the Virgin and
1884 Fortn.
Child are exhibited in
Rev. Feb. 212
Many artisans
glory. i853Hu.MPHREVsCi7/M.cc//. il/fiM.
live voteless
xxiv.
outside boroughs. 1888 Co-
357 The altars
operative for
Netvs 15 Dec. 1 261 Wc ApoUowere besieged with votive offerings for the
only rffer to
staying
their voteless
condition In order
of the pestilence.
[etc-l-
Voter (v^-t3j). Also 6 6V. wottar. [f. Votez'.]
b. Observed, practised, undertaken, etc., in con-
1. One who has a right to vote ; esp. an
sequence of
elector.
a vow.
a 1578 LiNDKSAYjPitscotlie)
i^>8
Ckron. Feltham Resolves \\. [i. ] Scot.K^.^.^.)
lxxxv.246 Votiue
I. 267
Abstinence,
The lordU devy«sit and
some cold constitutions
chargit Lord Patrick Lyndsay may endure.
of
1805 Wordsw. Prelude
I. the Byaris
181
to be chancellor and
Whence inspiration for
first wottar in the
a song that winds Through ever
consall.
1637-50 Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow changing scenes
Soc.) 191 As
of votive quest Wrongs
to the
to redress. 1876
number of Stedman voters, that there should
Victorian
be
Poets
fifty-one. 1767 T.
yyj A knight tilting at a wayside
Hutchinson Hist. Mass. 11. 10 Every
tournament as he rides on his
freeholder of forty
votive quest.
shillings sterL a year is a voter. x^xHick^hs Barn. Rudge c. Of the nature of a vow. rarr~^.
xlvii. He usually drove his voters up to the poll with his a i6a6 A. Lake Serin. (1641) 116 The King bindeth him-
own hands. 1855 Macaolav Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 458 In the selfe to make good his duty with a Votive Oath.
towns in which he wished to establish an interest, he re- 3. Consisting in, expressive of, a vow, desire, or
membered, not only the voters, but their families. 1880
M'^Cabthy Otvn Times
wish.
lix. IV. 311 Voters were dragged to
the poll like slaves or prisoners.
«597 Middlkton Wisd. Solomon ix. 8 When I command,
the people
b. One who gives a
do obey, Submissive subjects
vote,
to
rart"^^,
my votive will.
i6«9
1701 Sir D. J. Gaulk Ultie), Practiq ve I'heories : or, Votiue Specu*
Hume Diary Pari. Scot. (Bann. CI.) 78 So by lations upon Christs Prediction, Incarnation, Passion,
vote it was carried (Halcraig and I being no voters,) to send Resurrection. 1641 Sanderson 6"cr/M.
a macer..to require them (1689)
to attend the
537 The sence
Council.
hangeth unperfect, unless we take in the former verse too.
\ 2. One who is bound by an oath or vow, Obs-^ Both together contain a Votive Prayer or Benediction. 1804
a x66o Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archaol Soc.) I. 240 The Wordsw. * O/or a dirge ' 9 No tears of passionate regret
Generall would passe noe other way than Balimore, as en- Shall stain this votive lay. 1835 — To Moon 34 The fanes
formed of the said oath to try whether nowe or neuer they Extinct that echoed to the votive strains.
did proue true voters.
t b. = VoTAL a, I. Obs.—^
Votereas, obs. var. Votaress. Votesave, x66^ Jer. Tavlor Dissuas. Popery i. ii. § i. 80 A man, by
obs. var. Vouchsapb. Voth, var. Wothb Obs. contrition is not reconciPd to God, without their Sacramental
Vother, southern ME. var. Fothkb or Ritual
sb.
penance, actual or votive.
Voting (vjutin),
4. Votive
vbl. sb. Also 6
mass (see qnot,
Sc. votting 1881).
;
7 Sc. woitting. [f. Vera v. + -ing i.]
1738 Chambers C^cl. ».v. Mass, Votive Mass, is an extraordinary
Mass besides that of the day, rehearsed on some
1. The action of giving a vote.
extraordinary occasion. 1853 Rock Ch. of Fathers III. i(n
x57Sin l^aitl. CI. Misc (1840) I. 113 After lang resson- The Catholic priest will find in his Missal, .those votive
yng, with votting past thairin...the last kirk hes ordanit Masses as they were, .allotted each one to its own day of
[etc]. 1633 Sc. Acts, Chas. I (1870) V, 95/2 To haue voitt the week, by Atcuin. 1881 BRiocErr Hist. Holy Eucharist
in parliament.. and in all vther lawful! meittin^s..quhair 1. 200 Masses have also been composed for special occasions,
burghes royall.. hes place of sitting and woitting. 1649 •and are called votive masses, because said according to the
OGtLBYy4?wMXL(i684) ^64 Let him not threaten, and make votum, i.e. the intention or desire of the celebrant,
Voting free. 17H in loth Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. B. sb. A votive offering. rare~^.
12 1 The Commons's voteini? of the throne of England vacant. 1646 Shirley To T. Stanley^ A palsy shakes
X765 Blackstone my pen while
Ctfww/. I. 165 Some, whoare suspected to I intend A votive to thy muse.
have no will of their own, are excluded from voting. i8m
A. Ranken Hist. France IX. x. §2. 259 The sittings and Hence Vo*tlvely adv.y in a votive manner.
votings of the states should be together, or separately. i86x 1847 Proc. Berw. Nat. Clith II. 237 Fruits placed votively
Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. App. ni. 4^8 The voting was on the shrine.
generally by the bean^ or ballot m later times. 1885 Manch. Votmen, southern ME, var. pi. of Footman,
Exam. 20 Ma^ 47 The voting for the Chancellorship of Votograph, Votometer, recent U.S. names
Dublin University took place yesterday.
for special types of voting-machines.
2. attrib.^ as voting'plact ; voting machine, a
Vo-tress ', Also 8-9 vot'ress. [var.
vote-recorder ; voting-paper,
of
a paper on which a
Votaress, after forms like enchantress,
vote is recorded
protectress^
; a ballot-paper.
1846 Keichtley A female
Notes on
votary.
Virgil Bucol. i, 34 Seuptum was
originally any inclosure, whence the Saepta or voting-place
1590 Shaks. Mids. N. II. i. 135 His moiherwas a Votresse
of the tribes at Rome. 1858 Simmonds Diet. Trade, Vot-
of my Order, Ibid. iL 164 The imperiall Votresse passed
ing-paper, a ballotingpaper;
on,
a proxy.
In
1861 Mill Repr
maiden meditation, fancy-free. 1607 Barley-Breake
Govt. 140 It is therefore provided that an elector may de«
(1877) 21 What Nymph, what Nun, or what disdainefull
livera voting papercontainingothernames.
Votresse, Shall
1880 McCarthy
not plucke downe and strike to thee the
Own Times hi. IV. 109 The voting-paper
Sayle?
principle was
1647 R. Stapvlton Juvenal 105 Ceres, the god-
abandoned. 1900 Daily News 28 Nov.
desse
7/7 The adoption
of husbandry, whose votresses none but chast women
of the voting machine would do away with
durst presume to be.
all the delay
1700 Dbyden Pal.
in
^ Arc, in. 225
counting and checking Che ballot papers.
Thy Votress from my tender Years I am. 1739 Corr. hetw.
C'tess Hartford 4* Otess
Vo*ting, ///. a. [-ING
Pomfret (1805) I. 149, I do not
2.^
wonder that you shed tears at the profession of the unhappy
+ L Votive, dedicatory, Obsr~^
votress at Genoa, since I could scarcely restrain mine at tne
1630 Hakewill Apol. (ed. a) 293 With Scythickc piety recital of her sufferings. 1758 Johnson Idler No. 18 f 6
their aged Sier Let striplings tumble from the voting bridge. Every one. .has the pleasure. .of hoping to be numbered
2. That possesses or exercises the right of suffrage. among the votresses of harmony. 1825 Scott Talism. iv.
1830 Jas. Mill in A. Bain Life vii.(i882) 351 They are the
Surprise at the sudden appearance of these votresses, and
class by whom chiefly the moral character of the voting classes the visionary manner in which they moved past him. 1866
is formed. 2837 W. E. FoRSTERin T. W. Reid i/XiSSS) I. J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 27 A votressofthe power Ortygian.
03, 1 saw some dreadful cases of voting drunken people, both Votress \ [f. Voter + -ess.] A female voter,
Whig and Tory. 1888 Bryce Amer.Commw. v. Ixxxviii. 1894 Daily Tel. 23 Nov. 5/4 The votress insisted that she
III. 194 The voting population seemed determined to give must plump for
its whole attention to the Ring for one day at least.
t Vo'tist- Obs. rare, [f. Vote sO. or v. +-IST,]
One who makes a vow ; a votary.
x6t\ CuAVUKt* Revenge Bussy D'A m&oisuu Plays 1^7 2^^*
137 Trie If a poore woman, votbt of reuenge, Would not
performe it. 1700 G. Hickks To Rdr. in Devot. Anc.
iVay Offices^ Those stiff, morose, and saturnine Votists, who
are so sparing of bodily Adoration, in our most solemn
Services. 1711 — Two Treat. Chr. Priest/uiiB^f) II. 107
A religious mystery, exhibiting one thing to the sense, and
another to the understanding of the votist.
VotivO (vJu'tiv), a. and sb. [ad. L. voHv-us
performed, offered, etc., in consequence of a vow,
f. vot-nm vow Vote sb. Hence also It, Sp., Pg.
votivo, ¥. votif •z've.]
A. adj. 1 1. Of persons ; Carrying out a vow;
devout. Obs. rare.
' Annie Sinclair '. 1895 N. A//ter. Rev. Sept.
267 Unable to conjecture what the results may be when
women shall have become not only votresses but. .alderwomen.
Vou, obs- var. Sc. Wow tnl.
Voubet, obs. Sc. form of Woobut,
Vouch, sb. [f. next.]
fl. «= Voucher j^,i on the poore Pesant. i6ai Bi-. Mountagu Diatribx 14 Discrediting
their vouches, by empairing their credits, and calling
their Honesty into question. 1631 Hevlin St. George 5
For having in the generall vouche and confession of the
Church, beene reckoned with the Saints departed.
Vouch (vQUtJ"), V. Forms : 4 voch- (5 Sc.
woche), fouche, 4 wowche, 5-6 vowch, 4-6
vouehe, 5- vouch, [a. AF. and OF. vocher^
voucher {fd¥ . also voch- ^vouchier^ vougier, voukier),
to call, summon, invoke, claim, etc., obscurely f.
L. vocare to call. Cf. Avouch z/.]
1. trans. Law, To vouch to warrant br to (also
•\for) warranty^ to cite, call, or summon (a person)
into court to give warranty of title, (After AF.
and OF. voucher agarant.)
(I I3»S MS. Rand. B.^20 fol. 47 5if bilke |>at is i voched to
warant be in present ant mid wille wolle waranti ^e tenaunt.
1483 Roils ofParlt. VI. 324/2 And over that, caused theym
. .to vouche by covyn to warrant one John Smyth, whiche
alsoby covyn entred into warrant. 1509-10 ^c/ i Hen. VIII
c. 19 Preamble, Margaret vouched to warranty your said
Suppliant. 1544 tr. Littleton's Tenures 34 Yf such tenaunt
be impleded by a Precipe quod reddat^&c. and he voucheth
hys lorde to warranty. 1594 West 2«rf Pt. Symbol.
§ 136 The vouchee is he, whom the tenant voucheth, or
calleth to warranty for the land in demaund. 1628 Coke On
Litt. io_3 When the 'tenant being impleaded within a particular
iurisdiction. .voucheth one to warranty. 1741 T.
Robinson Gavelkind i. vi. 130 If the Heir at Common Law
be vouched for Warranty. 1766 Blacksione Comm. II. 380
If the vasal's title to enjoy the feud was disputed, he might
vouch, or call, the lord or donor to warrant or insure his gift.
x8i8 Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 382 When a person is vouched
to warranty, and enters of his own accord into the warranty,
the law presumes that he parted with his possession with
warranty. 1875 K. E. Digbv Real Prop. (1876) 78 note. The
person vouched to warranty might in his turn vouch asecond
person, and the second vouchee a. tliird.
alfsol. 1531 Dial, on Lmvs Eng. ii. i. Fiv b. When the
tenaunte in tayle hath vouched to warrauntye. 1865 F. M.
Nichols Britton II. 258 If the deforciant vouches to warranty,
then the like process shall hold [etc.].
b. elHpt. (with omission of /(J Wfl/-;'rt«/).
1544 tr. Littletons Tenures 12 The wyfe of the feoffour
bryngeth an accyon of Dower gaynst the yssue of the
feoffe, and he vouched the heyre of the feoffour. 16*5 Sir
H. Finch Law (1636) 37oIf the tenaunt vouch adead man,
the demandant may auerte he is dead, or there is none such.
i6a8 Coke Ou Litt. 3B6b, If two men make a Feoffment..,
and the one die, the Feoffee cannot vouche the survivor
only, but the heir of him that is dead also. 1766 Blackstone
Comm. II. 359 If Edwards therefore be tenant of the
freehold in possession, . . Edwards doth first vouch Harker,
and then Barker vouches Jacob Morland the common
vouchee. 1818 Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 325 This person
beiiig tenant to the prxcipe^ vouches the tenant in tail 1875
K. E. Digby Reai Prop. (1876) 78 noie^ If at the time of the
claim the vouchee were dead, the possessor of the thing
claimed could
I. Obs.—^
1621 Bp. Mountagu Diatribx 128 Tell mee.ifhee will not
stand amazed at your Vouches in Fines and Recoueryes.
2. An assertion, allegation, or declaration; a
formal statement or attestation of truth or fact.
Now chiefly colloq.
1603 Shaks. Meas. for M. 11. iv. 156 My vouch against
you, and my place i' th' State, Will so your accusation ouer.
weigh. [Also Oth. n. i. 147, etc.] 1610 W, Folkingham W>-/
of Survey To Rdr. p. iii, An Arte lesse Agent can., with the
bare vouch of the generall goodnesse of the Ground.. baile
* vouch the tomb ' of the vendor.
absot. 1513 FiTZHERB. Surv. 20 If their copies were lost
they may vouche and resoit to the lordes court rolles.
t6^ Coke. On Litt. 101 b, The partie, if he hatha Warrantie,
shall not vouche, but liaue his action of couenant, if
[etc.]._ 164a tr. Perkins Prof. Bk. i. §49, 23 If a bastard
eigne is impleaded and vouch and the vouchee enters into
warranty. 167a [see Voucher sb.* 4).
O. With over. Of a vouchee : To cite (another
person) into court in his stead. Also absoi.
15x1-3 Act 3 Hen. VIIl^ c. 18 Preamble^ In whiche..
accione the seid tenauntes vouched to warrante Syre John
Rysley Knyght and he vouched over to Warantie Thomas
Fysshe. 1628 [see Voucher sb.^ i bj. 1741 T. Robinson
Gavelkind i. vi, 130 If the Heir at Common Law be vouched
for Warranty, who vouches the Heirs in Gavelkind because
of the Possession, they all shall vouch over. 1766 Blackstone
Comm. II. 359 He vouches the tenant in tail, who
vouches over the common vouchee. 1818 Cruise Digest
(ed. 2) V. 451 If z.pr3etipe is brought against a tenant in
tail, and his wife, . .and they both vouch over in the usual
manner, it will bar the estate tail. Ibid.y A common recovery,
in which he and his wife vouched over the common vouchee.
2. To take or call (a person) to witness, fin
early use with to record. A\so trans/, (quot. 1700).
c X4ia HoccLEVE De Reg, Princ. 1838 God of heuen vouch
I to record, pat..Thow schalt no cause haue more (>us to
muse. 1435 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 267/2 And yat ye same
Wauter voucheth Baronez to recorde whiche bene present
in yis Parlement, and wer present in yat Counseill. 1676
W. Longuevelle in Hatton Corr. (Camden) I. 125 Clarke.
quoted Basset's man, a bookseller in Fleet-streete ; and ye
yoiig bookseller vouch't Mr. Freake, a yong barrister of ye
Middle Temple. 1700 Dhyden Ovid's Met. xiii. 22 The
Sun and Day are Witnesses for me, Let him who fights
unseen relate his own. And vouch the silent Stars, and con*
scious Moon. Ibid. loi That it is not a Fable forged by me,
. . 1 vouch ev'n Diomede.
b. To cite or appeal to (authority, example,
doctrine, etc.) in support of one's views or statements
or as justification for a course of action.
1531 Elyot Gov. hi. xxv, But the most catholike and
renounied doctours.. vouche (as I mought say) to their ayde
the autoriiie of the writars. 1581 J, Bell Haddon^s
Answ. Osor. 30 Bycause I sayd that our Preachers do
alleadge Scriptures onely : and yet within a whiles after I
added, that they did vouche the auihoritie of the Fathers
also. 1641 J. Shute Sarah ^ Hagar{i6^()) 195 He voucheth
the example of Elias, how God, upon his prayer, shut
and opened heaven, 1660 Bonde Scut. Reg. 363, I vouch
every mans experience to warrant this truth. 169a Locke
Toleration in. ix. 215 So that you cannot vouch the intention
of the Magistrate, where hisLaws say nothing. 1884
Laio Rep. 14 Q. B. D 799 There is no such doctrine as that
. . which has been vouched in order to take away the effect
of this deed. 1885 Ld. Esher in Law Times' Rep (N.S.)
LIII. 445/3 A solicitor cannot vouch his privilege in such
a case as this.
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