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VOWQARD.
A CCTtayne vowesse or professed nunne. 1587 Holinshed |
Ckroit. III. loSo/a Vpon which toome there Uie a stone
image of Edith in the habit of a vowesse holding a hart in
hir nght hand. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vli. vii. 227 She
abandoned her Regencie, and built a house of deuotion in
the He of Shepey, wherein hcrselfe became a Vowesse. 169s
Kensett Par. A nlic). ix. 660 A rich Tomb . . with her image
thereon, in the habit of a Vowess Crown'd.
t Vowgard. Obs.~^ (Meaning obscure.)
c 1460 TmmuUy Myst. xxx. 580 Now is all in oureward,
youre yeres ar ron, It is commen in vowgard youre dame
malison, To bynde it
Vowght, obs. variant of Vault sbA
Vowing (vau-ii)) , vbl. sb. [f. Vow v. + -ing 1.]
The action of the verb in various senses.
m 1300 Cursipr if. 10692 t>ebiscop..did [jamsembled be, O
bis vouing Iv.r. vowing] of chastite For to ask o l>aim sum
rede. iSSo Bale A/o/. i 36 Where as he calleth geldynge or
makynge chast for the kyngdome of heauen, a voweynge of
the single lyfe, whych Christ neuer ment. 1594 Carew Tassa
(i88t) It That holy Pilgrims farre from dread of way That
great Tombe might adore, and vowings pay. i78aj. BR0\^^^
View Nat. \ Re-L'ealtd Relig. vi. iii. § 9 (1796) ,505 Vowing
is the making a solemn promise to God, in which we bind
ourselves to do or forbear somewhat for the promoting his
glory. 1844 Mrs. Browning mail's Rcguirem. ii. Love me
with thine open youth In its frank surrender; With the
vowing of thy mouth With its silence tender. i886CoRiiErT
Fall o/Asgard 1 1. 77 The drinking went forward again, and
great was the vowing and boasting as the night went on.
Vowis, obs. Sc. pi. of Wolf.
a. [f- Vow sb. + -LESS.] Not
Vow-less,
bound by a vow or vows.
l6»o Bp. Hall Hon. Marr. Clergy 1. xvii. Wks. (1628) 757
Hee hath done with their owne vowes, and now descends
to vs. Whom hee confesses vowlesse.
+ Vowly, southern dial. f. Foolly adv. 5.
1633 B. JoNsoN Tnlt Tub\. ii, And the Tame dayo' the
moncth, as this Zin Valentine, Or I am vowly deceiv'd.
Vowne, altered f. Vow i».2 3 b. rare-^.
1785 Mass. Spy 13 Oct. (Thornton), Ye yanking lads of our
town, ye Are biave fellows all, I vowne.
Vowre, sonth-westem dial, variant of Four.
tVoWSOn. Obs. Forms: 3-4 voweson, 5-6
Touson (5 vovirson, -sone, wouson), 6 vowson.
[Aphetic f. avow{e)son Advowson.] Advowson,
patronage.
1197 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9678 Juf bituene tueie lewedemen
were enistiiuing..As "or voweson of churche we))er ssolde
J>e churche ?iue. 1414 PastonLett. I. 18 A sute that he
made ageyn the seyd piiour of a voweson of the chyrche of
Sprouston. I4i« in E. E. Wills (1882) 74 pe Maner Enwarle
in Deuen, with be voursone of i>e chirche, And . . |)e maner
of Thoincoffyn in Somerset, with )k vourson of )« church.
1464 Rolls o/Parlt, V. 520/2 Londcs, Tenementes, Rentes
and Wousons of Chirches. iJSoT. Lever Sertii. (Arb.) 115
Not able. .to barcke agaynste pluralytyes, improperacions,
hying of vousons, nor against anye euyll abuse of the
cleargies lyuynges. iS«o Daus tr. Sleidanes Comm. 156 An
other euill vse is to geue out vousons of benefices, as it were
in areueition. 1570 Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc) 361,
1 was informed that this Rycall was granted in vowson to
one Mi. Hamond of Yorkshire.
Vov(r8yng: see Vousing Obs. Vowt, var.
VuLT Obs. Vowt(e, obs. varr. Vaolt sb.^ and v.^
Vowtre, obs. f. Vulture.
t Vowtre. Obs. rare. [Aphetic f. avowtre : see
AiJULTEBY.] Adultery. Also t Vowtre v. inir.,
to commit adultery, f Vowtriere, an adulteress.
fVowtry, adultery. Obs.
c 1400 Apol. Loll. 21 And al o))er lawis t>at semen to sey,
|iat man how to curse for crime of *vowtre, beft, & swilk
o)>er. Ibid. 87 Pey kepe noiber clene lif, ne wedding, but.
•vowtrand, or doing a-vowtri. a 1400-50 Alexander ^i-^,^
To Venus fe 'vowtriere may no}t ells a-vaile. c 1450 Mirk's
Festial Ti Synne of lechery and of 'vowtrye. Ihid. 201, I
haue made mony on to sle men, and forto syn yn lechery
and yn vowtry,
Vowtur, obs. form of Vu*-ture.
II Vox (v^ks). [L. vox (pi. voces), voice.]
1. Vox populi, the voice of the people ; expressed
general opinion ; common talk or rumour.
' The Latm maxim Wox Mult vox Dei the voice of the
people is the voice of God , is freq. cited or alluded to in
English works from the 15th cent, onwards.
a 1550 in Skeltoii's Wks. (1843) H. 409/1 A wondcifuU sorle
of selles, That vox populi telles. Of those bottomlesse welles.
1570 R. Constable in Sadler's St. Papers (1809) U. 388,
I hard vox populi that the lord regent would not, for his
owne honor, . .deliver thearls. 1603 Holland Plutarch's
Mor. IX. 787 No publicke fame, nor vox popli Was ever
knowen in vaine to die. 1671 E. Howard Six Days Adventure
Pief. A 4 There being nothing more unstable or
erroneous than vox populi in point of plays. 1774 {titled
Vox populi, or Old England's Glory a Destruction in 1774.
iSaa Galt Sir a. Wylie xcv'i,' O, justawheen havers!'
replied Bell—'causey talk—Vox populi I' 1867 E. FiTZ-
Gerald Lett. (1889) I. 308 Well, but I believe in the Vox
Populi of two hundred Years : still more 01' two thousand.
2. Vox angelica, vox humana (or \ humane),
varieties of organ-stops imitative of vocal sounds.
Also attrib.
017x6 Tudwav in Burney Hist. Music (1776) IV. 355
These [stops] were the Vox-humane, , . with some others
I may have forgot. 1776 Burney Hist. Music IV. 147 Of
pipes thus constructed are composed the stops called the
Vox-bumana, Regal, ..and many others. iSsaSEiDELOrfin
21 In the seventeenth centuryseyer.nl registers were.. insetted,
among which we may mention the vox humana, and
the vox angelica. j88s Vox Humana 3 The effect of the
Vox Humana stop.. is to make the organ sound likeachoir
of human voices.
322
Vox, south-western dial. var. Fox sb. ; obs. Sc.
var. Voice sb. ; obs. Sc. pa. t. Wax v.
(voi-ed^), sb. Forms : a. 3-4 veage, 6
Voyage
Sc. weage (virevrage, weavage), 7 Sc. veadge ; 3
veiage, 3-4, 6 voyage (6 Sc. wey-) 4-6 vaiage,
;
5, 6 Sc, vayage, 5-6 Sc. wayag(e ; 5 (9 din/.)
vage, 5 vaig, 8-9 north., 9 Sc. vaige, 9 dial, vayge,
Sc. vae(d)ge. /3. 4-8 (9 dial.) viage (5 uiage,
viagge,6viadge,viegde), 4-6 vyage (4uyage)
5 .SV. wiage, 5-6 wyage. 7. 5-7 voiage (6 voiadge,
7 voige), 5- voyage (6 voyaige, 7 -adge)
Sc. s -woyage, 6 wo(v)age, 7 woag. [a. AF. and
OF. veage, veiage, vayage, and voiage, -aige, voage,
vonaige (F. voyage), = Ptov. vialge, Up. viage, I'g.
viagem. It. viaggio:—L. viaticum provision for a
journey, Viaticum.]
1. An act of travelling (t or transit), a journey
(t or passage), by which one goes from one place
to another (esp. at a considerable distance).
a. In the phrases to take or make (a, the, or
one's) voyage. Now rare.
In early use including travel by sea as well as by land ;
quotations in which the nautical sense is clear see 3 b.
(n) 1197 R. Glouc (Rolls) 4920+85 Cadwal in Yrlonde ys
ost^arkede vaste &vorJ» toward |>ys lond )?e veage nome. 1375
Barbour Bruce xiv. 117 He his viage soyne hastane. And
straucht toward the plas is gane. 1390 Gower Con/. II. 8
He hath himself conformed. .To schape and take the viage
Homward. c I4i» Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1262 Seint
Ambroses legende seith, how he Ones to Rome-ward took
his viage. c 1440 Cenerydes 226 Now to this lady lete vs
turne ageyn, Whiche to Surry hath take hir viage. 1564
HAWARDtr. Eutropius iv. 41 The consuls toke then their
viage to invade Carthage, a J575 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist.
(Camden, No. 36) 43 Thei. .toke their viage toward Rome,
destroying all thinges on everie side. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus
11. 76 b. We must take our voyage on foote the space
of forty dayes by the waters side. 1647 Hexham i, To take
a Viage, reysen.
t. , ,, ,
(h) 1303 R. Brunne Hand!. Synne 3746 To belle pou
m.ikyst by vyage. i;i3iS Metr. Horn. 54, I mac mivaia^e,
'I'il sain Jam in pilgrimage, c 1400 Maunuev. (Roxb.) xxxiv.
152 It schuld be a lang tyme are bat vaiage ware made.
1484 Caxton Fables 0/ Auiau viii. To make better theyr
vyage they were sworne ecbe one to the other that none of
them bothe should leue other. 1550 Coverdale .S>/r. Pcrle
x.vix. (1588) 291 A marchant man maketh far viagesand great
iourneis..for worldly and transitory ^ain. lyjgPoor Knt.s
Pal. Priv. Pleas. (Roxb.) B iij, This is shee..whom once
within the Lake, I'shcwed vnto Robinson, as our viage wee
did make. 1584 Warner Alb. Eug. 11. vii. (1592) 27 And
Hercules to Calidon a Dismall viage makes, i860 R. Noel
Vac. Tour 467 A voyage I made by a very un&equented
path from Ccesarea to Nazareth.
b. In other contexts. Now rare.
o. c 1400 Ywaine * Caw. 532 Swith, he sayd, wendes
with me. Whoso wil that wonder sc.Thar was none
so litel page That he ne was fayn of that vayage. 1560
Rolland Seven Sages 12 To Romes Court the way thay
held on richt. Thii seuin Maistcrs Ihair veyage passing on
[etc.]. a 1585 MoNTGOMERiE Cherry f/ Slae()2$ (Lamg MS.),
Bot fra we gett our wayage win, tliay sail nocht than the
cherrie cun. 187S [W. Alexander] Sk. Life Ain Folk 195
Mains of Puddleweal sent his carts on a weekly ' vaege ' to
the buigh of Inneiebrie to fetch his supplies of lime.
p. 1338 R. BiiUNNEC/iroM. (iSio) 90 Hewentbat viage To
William be rede kyng, ber he was in Wales, c 1386 Chaucer
Prol. 792 That ech of yow to shorte with oureweye In this
viage shal telle tales tweye. cxaoPilgr. i'(i7c/if (Caxton) 11.
xli. (1859) 46 Theyr iourney was foully adetermyncd and theyr
vyage endyd.