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VOUREB.
\}e tovnis boundls To be vowrid of bestis & of boundis,
[at fillit ware, & with aprene mocht out be latine..and togiddire
fal, & tyne t^e vowsty blawing al.
2. Boastful, proud.
1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslies Hist. Scot. 11. 212 Of quhiike
victorie. -tha war sa vane and vouslie, that [etc.]. 1606
EiRNiE Kirk-Buriall {\%^-^ 4 Euery Nation seruing itselfe
with the owne vowstie deuise. 1789 Beattie To Alex. Ross
xvi, And chiels shall come frae 'yont the Cairn-a-mounth
light vousty.
Vout;e, obs. variants of Vault sb}-
Voute, variant of Vult Obs.
and v.^
tVonter. Obs. rare. [Aphetic f. az;(?«/tfr : see
AnuLTKK.] An adulterer.
c 1386 Chaucer Friar's T. 74 (Lansd. MS.), (Better] Jjan
Jiis Somenour ]andau. >8aa Wordsw. Eccl. Soun.
III. xxi. 13 Sname if the consecrated Vow be found An idle
form, the Word an empty sound, 1866 R. W. Dale Disc.
spec. Occas. 34a Those vows cannot now be cancelled or
recalled. 1869 Lecky Euro^. Mor. \, 144 The earliest form
in which the duly of veracity is enforced is probably the
observance of vows.
b. In phrases, as to makey to hoidy keep, pay (or
-^ yield), or to break, a vo70.
(rt) c IS90 St. Fides 51 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 84 For ich habbe
to him mi vou i-makeH. « 1300 O/rjor i1/. 28286 Ic ha made
vo IS oft vn-rigbt and halden J>am efier my might. 1303 R,
Brunnr Handl. Synne 2795 Jyf t»ou madest awhere any
vowe To wurschyp God for fy prowe. c 1340 Hampole Pr.
Ctf/iir. 294a pan has Jwit man grete drede m hert; He mas
l>an vowes, and cryes on Crist. 1387 Trkvisa Higden
(Rolls) VI. 81 Kyn^ Oswy made a vow f»at jif he hadde i>e
vittorie in ^at bataille he wolde offre his doubter Klfleda to
God of hevene. c 1430 Syr Geuer, (Roxb.) 1925 To god and
you a voye I make, I sha! youre seruice ncuer forsake.
"473 Wabkw. Chron. (Camden) 8 He made a woue that the
Lorde Willowby schuld lese his hede. 1530 Palsgr. 619/2,
I make a vowe to God and to Our Ladye that I shall never
slepe one night where 1 slepe an other, tyll 1 liave sene liym,
1587 Mirr, Mag., Brennus ix, I made a vowe to kill the
man that c.iusde me flye. 160a Shaks. Ham. 11. ji. 70 He
..Makes Vow before his Vnkle, neuer more To giue th'
assay of Armes against your Maieslie. 1700 Drvden Hiad
I. 27 So may the Gods. .accord the vows you make, And
give you Troy's imperial town to lake. 1718 [see {,b)\. 1829
ScorT Anne o/Geierstcin i,He proceeded to recount the vow
which was made. .to our Lady of Einsiedlen. 1867 W.
Fleming Moral Philos. 11. 11. ii. 296 We may make a Vow,
however, to our fdlow-crealures, or even to ourselves.
{h) a I700 Cursor M. 24907 (Edin.), Do vou, Elis, and hald
Hvow It sal te turn tit mikel pru. a xy^/o Hampole Psalter
cxv. 8 My wowis i sail ^eldc till lord in sight of all his folke.
138a Wyclif y^xxii. 27 Thou shall pre^en hym..and thi
vou wis thou shall 5elde. i5a6[5eei c]. 1560 Bible (Genev.)
yod xxii. 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer vnto him,.. and
thou shall rendre thy vowes. c 1611 Chapman //iad 11. 248
Nor would [these men] pay Their own vows to thee. 1651
HoBBES Leviaih, i, xiv. 6g Being a thing unjust to pay such
Vow. 1697 Dryden Mneid 11. 22 They feigned it made
Foi their return, and this the vow they paid. 1718 Lady
VOW.
M. W. Montagu Lei. to C'tess 0/ Mar 10 Mar., She firmly
intended to keep the vow she had made. 1819 Wokdsw.
Misc. Sonn. i. xi. 5 How Shall Fancy pay lo thee a grateful
vow? 1859 Tennyson Pelleas ^ Ettarre 549 Have any of
our Round Table held their vows ? 1876 — Harold in. i,
He did not mean lo keep his vow.
(e vow of chastite. 1526 PiIgr. Pt-rf. (W.
de W. 1531)65 To..kepe theyr foure essencial vowes the
better, that is, the vowe of chastite, the vowe of obedience,
the vowe of wylfuH pouerte and the vowe of perpetual!
inclusyon. 1590 Shaks. Mids. N. 1. i. 121 The Law of
Athens yeelds you vp..To death, or to a vow of single life.
1638 Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. {\q\. II) 21 Sir, if I had made a
vowof humility, you give me here a fair occasion to be proud
for not breaking it. 1671 Milton Samson A. 319 Against
his vow of strictest purity. 1776 Dalrymple Ann. Scott.
I. log Having made a vow of perpetual virginity. 1859
Tennyson Vivien 545 They bound to holy vows of chastity !
Were 1 not woman, 1 could tell a tale. 1874 Green Short
Hist, iil § 6, (1882) 144 The vow of Poverty was turned into
a stern reality.
+ d. To take in vow, to make a vow. Obs.'~'^
15»6 Pilgr. Per/. (W. de W. 15^1) 57 Ye & take it in
vowe that thy delectacyon sholde be onely in the passyon
&paynes of Jesu Chryst.
2. Eccl. A solemn engagement to devote oneself
to a religious life of a definite nature, such as that
of a monastic or conventual order. Freq. in pi.
to take the voivs, to enter a religious order.
c 1400 Apol. Loll. 101 perfor iuge religiouse men in l>er
consciens, if bei ground hem J>us in her vowis. 1560 Daus
tr. Sleidane s Conivi. 59 Men must be warned that they
suffre not them selves to be bounden to Monkish voWes.
^1578 LiNDi-SAY (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 71
Thow fals heretick hast taught plainlieaganes the wowis of
monkes freiris nunes and preistis. 1603 Shaks. Meas.for
M. IV. ii. 180 By the vow of mine Order, I warrant you, If
my instructions may be your guide. 1651 Hobbes Lei'iatk,
IV. xlvi. 376 Monks, and Friers, that are bound by Vow to
ihat simple obedience to their Superiour, to which every
Subject ought to think himself bound. X7ai Sirype £cr/.
Mem. 1. xliv. 339 A late proclamation of the king that disallowed
of the marriage of priests, and concerning the vows
of religious persons, gave them disgust. 1753 Challoner
Cath, Chr. Jnstr. 171 Those who have chosen the better
Part, and consecrated themselves by Vow to God. 1814
Scott Lord ofIsles vi. iii, There Bruce's slow assent allows
Fair Isabel the veil and vows. 1845 S. Austin Ranke's
Jlist. Re/, I. 463 On his friends earnestly pressing him to
take the vows, he ran away. i84