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VANISHED.
j3. v. 1393 Langl. p. PL C XVI. 8 So mj'ghle happe, J?at .
vim^ie (should] alle myne vertues and myne faire lockes.
C1440 Capgrave Li/e St. Kath. i. 487 It wyll wanyse &
wast, roten & be brent. 1533 Gau Richt Vay 31 Quhen he
gettis ony aduersite or persecutione, thane it[si. his faith]
wanis^is and \%-auers as ane dreyme. 1596 Dalryhple tr.
Lestie's Hist. Scot. II. 239 How sune vanisses that plesure,
quhilke mortal! man callis felicitie.
C Const, into (air, smoke, etc.).
1590 Marlowe and Pt. Tamhurl, v, iii, Weepe heauens,
and vanish into liquid teares. 1600 Dekker Gulfs Horti'
6k. 27 Plauditics, and the Breath of the great Beast, which
(like the threatnings of two Cowards) vanish all into aire.
i6«7 Morton ///«. 11. 44 The ill successe of the Queen^
affaires (whose great expences and Royall Army they had
scene vanish into smoke). 1697 Drydes TVr^. Georg. iv.
575 Surprize him first,.. Then all his Frauds will vanish into
Wind. 1807 Hogg Mountain Bard, Mess yoAn xxiv, U
the cock be heard to crow, The charm will vanish mlo air.
184a LoNCF. BiZ/ry of Bruges iv, Wreaths of snow-white
smoke ascending, vanished, ghost-like, into air.
d. Maik, Ofnumbers or quantities: To become
zero.
1715 tr. Gregory's Astron. (1726) 1. 190 Because the Orbits
of Mercury and Venus. .do almost vanish in respect of the
Orbit of Saturn. 1789 Phii. Trans. LXXIX. 175 This
series . .only differs from it by the last term S o not vanishing,
that is, being = 0. 18J3 H. J. Brooke introd. Crysiaiiogr.
aoi The axis must vanish, before the planes P and P'
would reach 180°. 1840 Lardner Geom. 290 The distance
between them decreasing without limit, but never vanishing.
1885 AVatson & BuRBURY Mutk. EUctr. ff Magn. I. 42 AH
the terms will vanish except those in which the multiples of
^ are the same.
3. To become worthless or vain. Obs.
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cx38oWvcLiF I^j&^. (1880)419 ^if salt vany^che awey it is
not wor)> aftir but to be castun out. 1382 — Luke xiv. 34 If
salt scbal van^-sche [L. €vanuerit\ in what thing schal it
be sauerid ? — Roin^ \. 21 Thei vanyscheden [L. evanuerunt]
in her thou^tis. 1387TRF.VISA Higden (Rolls) III. 347
Pe apostelsei]> t>at suche philosofres vansched away in here
)>ou)tes.
4. irafis. To cause to disappear ; to remove from
sight. Now rare,
c X440 AlpK Tales 45 And with {^at he vanysshid his enchawntement,
& ^er was oght nott lefte of all Jjat hym
J>oght he saw. 1590 Marlowe znd Pt. Taniburl. v. iii, Thus
are the villaines..fled for feare. Like Summers vapours,
vanisht by the Sun. 1604 Meet. Gallants at Ordinarie 5
Say thou'st slaync Foure hundred Silkweauers, . .vanisht As
many Tapsters, Chamberlaines, and Ostlers. 1633 Bp. Hall
Hard TextSt N. T. 47 Whose bodies have been vanished
into all the Elements. 1679 Penn Addr. Prot. n. 93
And were Liturgies . . so framed, . . Schisms on Opinion were
utterly vanished. X709 Mrs. Manley Seer. Mem. (1736) III.
74 Whilst she was going to enquire who had sent it, the
Child was dextrousTy vanish'd from the place. x^6&-74
Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 656 You might as well think of
haranguing a man out of a fever, as go to vanish his scruples
arising from that cause by the remonstrances ofreason. 1886
Pall Mall G. 23 Dec 4/1 Then he vanishes a birdcage and
its occupant. . . Finally, he vanishes his wife.
Hence Vanished (vse'nijt) ppl. a.
1593 Shaks. Lucr. 742 He runs, and chides his vanish'd,
loathed delight, f z6oo — ^'iJK/i. xxx. Then can L.mone
th' expence of many a vannisht sight.
x8xa Byron Ch. Har. 11. xl. Oft did he mark the scenes of
vanish'd war. 1867 Morris Jason 1. 394 Strange (questions
of the race of vanished men. Ibid. x. 554 And their hearts
too, with thoughts of vanished years Were pensive. xBoo
Science-Gossip XXVI. 108 Specimens of lifeless and shells
of defunct and vanished univalves and bivalves.
Va'nisher. [f. Vanish z*.] One who, or that
which, vanishes or disappears.
1864 Whittier The Vanishers iii. From the clefts of
mountain rocks. . Flash the eyes and flow the locks Of the
mystic Vanishers.
Vanisbing (vae'nijig), vbL sb. [f. the vb.]
1. The action or fact of disappearing,
c 1386 Chaucer Knt.^s T, 1502 And forth sche wente, and
made a vanysshynge. 1473 Wabkw. Chron. (Camden) 22
Afore the vanyschynge therof, it apperyd in the evynynge.
x6ix CoTGR., £sz'anouissementt..a. vanishing out of sight,
x6x4 Raleigh Hist. World iii. (1634) 7 As where it tels of
Nebuchadnezzar his owne vanishing away. X7XX Addison
Sped. No. 44 p I Thunder and Lightning, .at the Vanishing
of a DeviL x82^ BvRoN Juan xvi. xxiv. There was no
great cause To think bis vanishing unnatural. x886^MfMseum
9 Oct 463/3 Amongst the vanishings and disappearances
of the * unfit ',
2, Vanishing pointy in perspective, the point in
which receding parallel lines, if continued, appear
to meet. Similarly vanishing line^ plane.
1797 Encycl Brit, (ed. 3) XIV. 183/2 Produce CB..and
draw PV parallel to it...V is its vanishing point. 1815 J,
Smith Panorama Set.