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VOUCH. 316 VOUCHEE.<br />
c. Similarly with reference to the citation of<br />
authors, works, etc<br />
1599 Thynne Animadv. (1875) 71 In the catalogue of the<br />
auctQrs, you haue omytted manye auctors vouched by<br />
chawcer. x6ii Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. x. (1623) 651 For<br />
more credit lo which assertion hee vouched sundry books<br />
and acts. 1630 Prynne Auti-Armin. 239 We have truly<br />
vouched well nigh two hundred that consent with us. 1651<br />
H. L'EsTRANGK Smectymnus-mastix 17 When he is vouched<br />
to serve their turns, he is set out with a more honorable<br />
encomtom, he is then stiled A learned Jew, the famous<br />
Rabbi Maymonides. X7aa Wollaston Relig. Nat. iii. 43<br />
For the truth of this 1 vouch the mathematicians. 1744<br />
Harris Three Treai.WVis, (1841) ^s, I am not certain..<br />
whether you will admit such authorities as it is possible I<br />
may vouch. 1831 lyesim. Rev. Jan. 73 No one now regards<br />
such writers as Ascham, Burton, Chapman.. as obsolete,<br />
or would hesitate to vouch them to justify a word and<br />
keep its memory from oblivion. 1866 Q. Rev. July 261 As<br />
he vouches another person for his former charge, and speaks<br />
allusively only of the second, it is difficult to say how much<br />
weight he attaches to either of these.<br />
d. To cite, quote, or adduce (a passage, etc.)<br />
out of a work in support of a view or statement.<br />
158X J. Bell Haddans Answ, Osor. 25 b, You recite at<br />
the last certeine of my wordes, vouched out of Augustine,<br />
which be as followeth. 1583 H. Howard De/ensative<br />
00 j b, Since I find a sorte of godly verses vouched out of<br />
theyr vessels, by the learned fathers of the church. 1596<br />
Danett tr. Comifus (1614) 79 Neither will I vouch examples<br />
out of the ancient histories. 1631 Heylin St. George 155<br />
His testimony vouch'd by Authors of that antiquity,..<br />
assure[s] mee . . that such a worke was in their times, receiv'd<br />
as his. 1656 Sanderson Serin. (16S9) 488 It would be too<br />
long to vouch Texts for each particular. 1843 S. R. Mait-<br />
LAND Remarks 72 A statement, thnt Philpot vouched the<br />
major of his argument ' out of Vigilius, an ancient writer *.<br />
+ 3. a. To put in evidence, to display. Obs,<br />
13. . £". E. AUit. P. B, 1358 pis bolde Baltazar bit)enkkes<br />
hyni ones, To vouche on [=an] avayment of his vayne<br />
glorie.<br />
f<br />
b. To announce or declare (a vow). Obs.<br />
13,. E. E, AUit, P. C. 165 Vchon glewed on bis god l>at<br />
gayned hym beste, Summe to Vernagu J>er vouched a-vowes<br />
solemne.<br />
\ c. To cast the responsibility of (something) on<br />
a person. Obs.<br />
c 1395 PlcnvmarCs Tale 945 On hir bishop their warant [to]<br />
vouche. That is law of the decre.<br />
4. To allege, assert, affirm or declare. Also<br />
const upon or againsi (a person). Now rare or<br />
Obs,<br />
X390 GowEK Cottf. I. 295 Bot I spak nevere y it . . That unto<br />
Cheste mihte touche, And that I durste riht wel vouche<br />
Upon hirself as for wttnesse. Ibid. II. 24 P'or..sche myn<br />
herte toucheth. That for nothing that Slowthe voucheih<br />
1 maiforyetehire. 1425 Rolls ofParlt, IV. 267/2 Thenne..<br />
ye same Wauter seyth and voucheth, ye Parlement yat<br />
King Richard held at Westm' [etc.]. 1581 J. Bell iIaddon's<br />
Ans-uf. Osor. 228 b, From whence shall this mylde & charitable<br />
allegation . .appeare at the length to be truly vouched<br />
agaynst Luther? 1603 Shaks. Meas./or i\L v.i. 326 What<br />
can you vouch against him, Signor Lucio? Is this the man<br />
that you did tell vs of? 1604— Oth. i. iii. 103 Bra. I therefore<br />
vouch againe, That with some Mixtures, powrefuU o're<br />
the blood, . . He wrought vp on her. Ditke. To vouch this,<br />
is no proofe. 1663 South Serm. (1697) I. 52 In that Power<br />
and Dominion that God gave Adam over the Creatures : In<br />
that he was vouched his immediate Deputy upon Earth.<br />
1817 Shelley Rev. Islam ix. xxxi. 5 What we have done<br />
None shall dare vouch, though it be truly known.<br />
+ b. With complement. Obsr"^<br />
1601 Shaks. Alts Well 11. v. 87 But like a timorous<br />
theefe, [I] most faine would steale What law does vouch<br />
mine owne.<br />
5, To assert or affirm to be trne or according to<br />
fact; to guarantee the truth or accuracy of (a<br />
statement, etc.) ; to attest or certify. Also const.<br />
against (a person).<br />
1591 Savile TacititSf Hist. i. 49 Diuerse miracles vowched<br />
by sundry persons terrifyed the mindes of men. i6ox<br />
Shaks. Alts Well 1. ii. 5 Nay tis most credible, we heere<br />
receiue it, A certaintle, vouch'd from our Cosin Austria.<br />
1700 Locke Hum. Und. (ed. 4) iv. xvj. §8 When any particular<br />
matter of fact is vouched by the concurrent Testimony<br />
of unsuspected Witnesses, there our Assent is also<br />
unavoidable, a 1703 Burkitt On N. T. Matt, xxviii.<br />
IS What an improbable and unlikely lie this was, which<br />
they put into the soldiers' mouths to vouch. 1750 tr.<br />
Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 117, I believe the saying of Pliny<br />
is very true, that there is no lie so impudent which is not<br />
vouched by authority. 1774 Reid Aristotle's Logic vi.<br />
fiz. 237 They will. .respect nothing but facts sufficiently<br />
vouched, 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. xv. II. 496 note^ Boyer,<br />
in his History of the Reign of Queen Anne, p. 12, says [etc.].<br />
..I should be glad to have found this vouched by better<br />
authority. 1841 W. Spalding Italy ^ H. Isl. II. 99 Other<br />
legends were vouched by grave citations from a certain<br />
<strong>Book</strong> of Martyrdoms. 1^9 M. Pattison Milton 153 An<br />
idle story that Milton died a Roman Catholic.. is not well<br />
vouched, being hearsay three times remove^.<br />
absol. tBi4 Scott Lord 0/ /sles 1. vi, Further vouches not<br />
my lay. Save that such lived in Britain's isle. 1878 Browning<br />
La Saisiaz 66 Go and see and vouch for certain.<br />
b. With subordinate clause : To bear witness, to<br />
testify, Ma/ (etc.).<br />
1604 Shaks. Oth. i, iii. 362 Vouch with me Heauen, I<br />
therefore beg it not To please the pallate of my Appetite.<br />
at8o6 Bp. Horsley 9 Serm. {1815) 138 Some few hours ,<br />
after, Peter vouches that he had seen our Saviour. xSsS i<br />
Scott P. M. Perth xxxiv, The Prior of the Dominicans will 1<br />
vouch for me', that they are more than half heathen. 1884 |<br />
MarshalCs Tennis Cuts 24 That there are now occasional 1<br />
complaints on this score we can vouch from personal<br />
knowledge. j<br />
C. With complement to the object.<br />
1684-5 South Serm., Prov. xvi. 3^ (1697) I. 358 If a man<br />
succeeds in any attempt, though undertook with never .so<br />
nuich folly and rashness, his success shall vouch him a<br />
politician. 1693 — Serm., Eccl. i. /
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