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VEHME.
of all Other heavenly Influences unto what is Sublunary.
1668 Howe Blfss. Righteous 325 Are not the exceeding
great and precious promises, the Vehicula, the convcighances
of the Divine Nature ?
4. = Vehicle sb. 4.
1656 Stanley Hisi. Philos. (1687) 189/1 Having imposed
each one his proper Star as a vehiculum. Ibid. 191/1 'Ihe
rest of the body they appointed as a vehiculum to serve this.
1794 R. J. SuLiVAN Vidv Nat, IV. 15 Plato, .supposes, that
into the vehiculum of the soul.. is infused.. a particular
formative virtue, distinct, according to that star.
5, = Vehicle sh. 5.
i668 CuLPF-ppER & Cole BarthoL Anat, i, xvii. 44 The
wheyish. .exceeds the two excrementitious Cholers, by
reason of the Blood, whose vehiculum U was to be.
II Velmie (v^ms, frma). Hist. Also Fehm.
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[a. older G. Vehme (now Fekme, Feme), MHG.
veme, vHme judgement, punishment.] = next.
z8» ScoTT Antte o/G.xx^ Go hence,.. and let the fear of
the Holy Vehme never pass from before thine eyes. 1836
Shark's Biogr.y Eaton IX. 350 Individual opinions are
restrained by a tyranny as inexorable as that of the Holy
Vehme, the secret tribunal of the Middle Ages. 1879
Encycl. Brit. IX. 63/2 It was necessary that a candidate
for initiation into the Fehm. .should not be a party to any
procc'is before a f'ehmic court.
(I Vehmgericlit (v^-m-, |i ie-m^^nx^i). Hist,
Also Vehme-, Fehm-. [a, older G. Vekm-y now
Fehm-^ Femgericht (pi. -gerichte), f. prec. -k-gtricht
court, tribunal.] A form of secret tribunal which
exercised great power in Westphalia from the end
of the I2th to the middle of the l6th century.
18x9 Scott Anne 0/ G. xx, Men initiated and intrusted
with high authority by the Vehme-gericht, or tribunal of
the bounds. 1839 Loncp. Hyperion i. vi, Two Black
Knights, who pretended to be ambassadors from the Vehm-
Gericht. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 63/2 It was only with the
restoration of public order., that the influence of the Fehmgerichte
gradually waned.
trans/. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xliv, ' Was Rebecca
guilty or not ? ' The Vehmgericht of the servants' hall had
Eronounced against her. 1880 Edin. Rev. Jan. 143 The
errors of the Karmathtan, the detestable Vehmgericht of
the ' Assassins ',. .all owe their origin to the schism of the
House of 'Ali.
Velxmic (v^*mik, f,?*mik), a. Also Vehmique,Pehniic.
[f. Vehm-e + -ic.] Pertaining to,
connected with, the Vehmgericht.
18*9 Scott Anne 0/ G. xx, Machinations for the destruction
of the Vehmique institutions, fbid.. In the Vehmique
court alt must be Vehmique. 1831 llnd. Introd., The Vchmic
tribunals of Westphalia, a name so awful in men's ears during
many centuries, a 1849 ^' Coleridgk Ess. {1851) I. 276
Invisible as a familiar or agent of the Vehmic association.
1879 [sec VeiimeJ. i88a-3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Kmrwl.
III. 245t/t When the State became able to maintain its
laws, the Vehmic Court became superfluous.
Veh'mist. [f. as prec. + -ist.] A member of
the Vehmgericht.
1841 Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 234 [They] thus, like the
Vehmists of Germany, pursued a faithless or refractory
member, even on the throne, with the steel and the cord.
Veht(en, southern ME. varr. Fight sb. and v.
Veiage, obs. var. Voyage sb. Veicht, obs. Sc.
f. Weight sb, Veid, obs. Sc. f. Weed sb. Veie,
southern ME. var. Fay a. Veien, southern ME.
var. Fat v.l Veighor.var. Veyour (viewer) Obs.
Vei'gle, "v. Now dial. [Aphetic f. Invkiolb
p.] trans. To inveigle. Also absoL
1745 Gentl. Mag. 161 Venus may veigle to the grove, To
taste the trifling sweets of love. 1778 Foote Trip Calais
ir. Wlcs. 1799 11. 345, I asked, if they had veigled one Miss
Minnikin into their clutches. 1887 T. Gibson Leg. ^ Notes
IVestm. Gloss. 307 Veigte, to entice.
Veik, obs. Sc. form of Weak a.
Veil (v^l), sb.^ Forms : a. 3 ueile, 4-5 (7)
veile, 5 veylle, 5-7 veyle; 4-5, 7 veyl, 6 veyll,
veill (veil), 3-5, 7- veil. $. 4 uayle, 4-5 vayl,
5-7 vayle, 5-8 vaile, vail (5 Sc. waile, wail), 6
vayel(l)e, 8 vaill, 7. 5 Sc. wale, val, 4, 6-7
vale. [a. AF. and ONF. vei/e {veiile) or veil
(veyl), = OF. voile (voille) and voil :—L. vela (neut.
pi., taken as fem. sing.) and velum sail, curtain,
veil. Cf. F. voile m. (veil) and f, (sail), = Prov.
vely It. and Sp. velo^ Pg. veo. See also Vele.]
I. 1. A piece of linen or other material forming
part of the distinctive head-dress of a nun, and
worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders and
down each side of the face.
a isa5 Ancr, R. 430 ?if 5e muwen beon wimpel-Ieas, beo3
bi warme keppen and t»eruppon blake ueilcs. c 1375 Sc.
Leg. Saints x. {Matthew) ^22 Pc apostil I?ane . . t>ai madynnis
all blyssit, & gefe ^lam waile & pal!, xjfi-j Thevisa Higden
(Rolls) V. 33 He ordeynede ^t a nonne, .schulde nou^t
handle t>c towayles of be awter,, .but sche schal here a veile
on hire heed. ^14x5 Wvntols Cron. v. viii. 1563 He gaf
biddynge to )>aim ay pat ^r wall war na tyme lewide, f^n
^i sulde wcr it on t>ar hcwide. c 1430 Lvdc. Min. Poems
(Percy Soc.) aoo Rympled liche a nunnys veylle. ^1515
Cocke Lorelts B. 14 And many whyte nonnes with whyte
vayles. 1:1530 Crt. 0/ Love 1102 The nonnes, with vaile
and wimple plight 1596 Dalrvmple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot.
I. 228 Eftir her consccrationc, haueng put on the Vale of her
Virginitie.-eftirthe consuetude of the kirkc, 16x0 Holland
Camden's Brit. 699 Heina.. that put on the Vaile and religious
habite of a Nunne. 1631 Townshend Albion's Trivntph
17 Religion, a woman in a short Surplusse of lawne
full gathered about the neck, and vnder it a garment of
watchet, with a short vale of siluer. X7»8 Chambers Cycl.
S.V., The Prelate before whom the Vows arc made, blesses
79
the Veil, and gives it to the Religious. 1753 Diary Blue
Nuns in Caih. Rec. Soc. Publ. VIII. 126 June the 19*^
P«ggy Johnson received the vail of postulante from Mother
Abbess Agnes Howard. 1825 Scott Talisman iv, Six [of
the females], who, from their black scapularies, and black
veils over their white garments, appeared to be professed
nuns of the order of Mount Carmel.
b. To take the veil^ to become a nun ; to enter a
convent or nunnery. (See- also quots. a 1700-56.)
Originally in sense 34 of the verb Take, but in later use
passing into sense 16 c.
c X3a5 Metr. Horn. 78 Thir maydens ware sent thalre
uayies to take Of that bisschope, ot whaim I spake... Thir
maydens come bifore the autere, And toke thaire uayies.
'^'STS ^c- Leg. Saints xxi. (Clement) 661 Throw hyme ^^e
wale has tan a cusing of domycyane. ci^zs Wyntoun
Cron. VI!. iii. 264 Hir systyr J?an dame Cristyane Off religion
t>e wail had tane. xsa6 Pilgr. Per/. (W. de W. 1531) 262 b,
She had forsaken the workle and taken the holy veyle and
habyte of religion. x6io Holland Camdens Brit. 395
Taking herself the Vale for opinion of holinesse. a 1700
Diary Blue Nuns in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. VIII. 15
Margarite Pigin came from-England to be a lay sister and
took the litle vaile for religion. 1756 Mrs. Calderwoou in
CoUness Collect. (Maitland Club) 259 It was the white vaill
she wa^ to take, that is, she was to enter her noviscet, for
there is here no publick ceremony in takeing the black
vaill, and last vows, for that is done within the convent,
after a year's wearing the white. 1791 Mrs. Radcliffi:
Rom. Forest iii, My father intended 1 should take the veil.
1818 Scott Hrt. Midi. Iii, She never took the veil, but
lived and died in severe seclusion, and in the practice of the
Roman Catholic religion. 1867 Lady Herbert Cradle L.
iii. 103 Then it.. became a large and flourishing Convent,
the wife of Baldwin I having taken the veil there.
c. The veil, the life of a nun.
18x1 Gary Dnnte, Parad. iv. 95 And thou mightst after
of Piccarda learn That Constance held affection to the veil.
i8»7 Hood Blanco's Dream 202 By twenty she had quite
renounced the veil. 1831 Scott Cast. Dang, xiv, One who,
..according to the laws of the Church, had a right to make
a choice between the world and the veil.
2. An article of attire consisting of a piece of thin
cloth, silk, or otl^er light fabric, worn, especially by
women, over the head or face either as a part of the
ordinary head-dress, or in order to conceal or pro-
tect the face ; now usually a piece of net or thin
gauzy material tied to the hat and completely
covering the face in order to protect it from the sun
or wind. Also in 6g. context (quot. 1648).
0,3. cxaso Gen. ff Ex. 3616 Dat folc on him [Moses] ne
mi^te sen But a veil wore hem bi-twen. 13.. Gazv. ^ Gr.
Knt. 958 fat ot»er wyth a gorger was gered ouer (le swyre,
Chymbled ouer hir blake chyn with mylk-quyte vayles.
14.. Siege Jerus. (E.E.'i'.S.) 15 5it is ^ visage in J>e vail,
as Vcronyk hym bro^t. 15x3 Douglas yEneid ml viii. 77
Our hedis befoir the altar we aray With valis brown, eftir
the Troiane gise. 1555 Eden Decades (Arb.) 255 His
heare long downe to his shulders,..with a vaile of silke
rowled alMwte his head. 1564 Brie/ Exam. ****iiij b, A
B>*shop that suffered a wydowe to syt without a vayle in
the Church among other wydowes. X638 Junius Paint.
Ancients 250 This same wise Tragaedian bringeth in
Agamemnon with a vaile before his eyes. 1648 Crashaw
Delights Muses Poems (1904) 146 How at the sight did'st
Thou draw back thine Eyes, Into thy modest veyle? x688
Holme Annoury in. 240/1 Gipsies.. in the Countrey for a
Vaile use some Durty Clout, having holes only for their
Eyes. X7X8 Free-thinker No. 73. 125 She wore a white,
unspotted Vail. x76o-a Goldsm. Cit. /^. cxviii, They were
covered from head to foot with long black veils. X774
Pennant Tour Scott, in /yjz, 124 Over her face a veil, so
transparent as not to conceal, 18*3 F. Clissold Ascent Mt.
Blanc 17 We all put on our veils, as a protection from the
heat and light. X838 Murray's Handbk. N, Gemt. 139 The
women of the lower orders here [Antwerp] wear a veil,
resembling the Spanish mantilla. 1859 W. Collins Q. 0/
Hearts (1875) 20 A bright laughing face, prettily framed
round by a black veil, passed over the head, and tied under
the chin. X900 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 2) I. 313
Amongst the Touaregs..the veil is never put off, not even
in eating or sleeping.
trans/. 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 200 A Peacock .
spreads round the rich pride of his pompous vail.
y. 1580-3 Grkenf, Mamillia Wks. (Grosart) II. 112 Where
cythcr the person or place should haue neede of a vale for
Sunne burning. x6ax Quarles Hadassa Wks. (Grosart) II.
60/1 Haman went home and mourn'd, (His visage muffled
in a moumfull vale).
fb. A loin-cloth. Obs.-"^
16^ Sir T. Herbert Trav. 187 A small vaile ouer their
priuities.
o. Eccl, = Humeral veil^ Hdmeral ct, a. (Cf.
also Offertory 5.)
i^Bi [see 4]. 1905 Ck. Times 3 Feb. 136 The Offertory
veil is worn on the shoulders like a broad scarf, the pendant
ends being gathered up in the hands for holding and covering
the sacred vessels.
3. A piece of cloth or other material serving as a
curtain or hanging: &. Jewish Antiq. The piece
of precious cloth separating the sanctuary from the
body of the Temple or the Tabernacle.
dX3oo Cursor M. 16762+85 Dede men risen out of J>er
graue, J>e temple vayl clef in twoo. 13. . Gos^. Nicod. 660
pe son wex dim ful sone, pe vail rafe in he kirk. X384
WvcLiF Exod. xxvi. 33 The veyle forsothe be it sett yn bi
ccrcles, with ynnc the whiche thou shall put thearkc of testymonye.
i4xa-so Lydg. Chron. Troyx, 1747 In >€ temple ^e
veil was kut on two. X5a8 More Dyalogue 111. Wks. 246/r
¥• veyle of the temple is broken asunder y* diulded among
y» Jcwes. x53sCovERDALE 2 Chron. iii, 14 He madea vayle
also of yalow sylke, scarlet, purple and lynenworke, and
madeCherubinstheron. x6xi Bible i Mace. \. 22 Antiochus
..entred proudly into the sanctuarie, and tookc away, .the
vaile. 1737 Whiston tr. yosepkus, Antiq. in. vii. § 7 The
vails, too, which were composed of four things, they declared
VEIL.
the four elements. 178* J. BROw^J Nat. ff Revealed Relig,
IV. lii. 363 While he expired, an earthquake rent the rocks,
and the vail of the temple. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV, 186/2
The inner sanctuary was separated from the holy place by
a rich curtain or veil.
/g. 1382 WvcLiF Heb. X. 20 Bi a veyl, or keuering, that
istoseye.hisfleisch. iS26Tindale Heb. x. 20 Through the
vayle, that is to saye by his flesshe. 1642 Rogers Naaman
Ep. Ded. a2, We are come. .even to the Holy of Holies,
through his flesh that hath broken downe the vaile of
seperation.
b. Eccl. The curtain hung between the altar and
the choir, esp. during Lent. Now Hist.
X427-8 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 68 For makyng of iiij
polesis of bras & iron werk and lede ^^at serued for )>k
vayl. a 1450 Mirk's Festial 126 Pe vayle >at ha^e be
drawen all Jje Lenton bytwene (le auter and jje qwere. X50S
Ace. Ld. High Treas. Scot. 11. 294 For xxvij eine Bertane
claith, to be the vail in the chapel of Halyrudhous agane
Lenterane. 1530 Palsgr. 284/2 Veyle for the church in
lent, custode. iss* Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 67 That
day the vayelle was hongyd [up] benethc the steppes. Ibid,
69 The xxviij. day after was Ester evyne, and then was the
tabulle remevyd, and sette benethe at the vayele northe and
sowthe. 1877 J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 94 A large
Curtain or Veil should be suspended in the Presbytery
between the Choir and Altar.
c. Used fig. or allusively in various prepositional
phrases, as behind^ beyond^ or within the veil,
chiefly after Heb. vi. 19 in Tindale's (1526) and
later versions of the Bible ; now commonly with
reference to the next world.
iS28_TiNDALE Obed. Chr. Man 91 b, Christe hath brought
vs all in into the inner temple within the vayle or forehanginge,
and vnto the mercy stole of God. 172a Wollastom
Relig, Nat, \x. 180 To participate of the mysteries of love
with modesty, as within a veil or sacred inclosure, not with
a canine impudence. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. Ivi, What
hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
1859 E. FitzGerald Omar xlvii. When You and I behind
the Veil are past. 1877 A. J. Ross Mem. Alex. Kwing
XXX. 521 In March, 1870, Thomas Erskine passed on within
the veil.
t d. A curtain or awning (cf. quots.). Obs.
1781 Gibbon Decl, ^ F. xxi. (1787) II. 277 The master of the
offices stood before the veil or curtain of the sacred apartment.
X790 Bystander 33 To prevent inconvenience from
the heat of the sun, they extended veils., by means of cords
attached to the extremity of the building.
4. A piece of silk or other material used as a
covering, spec, (Eccl.) to drape a crucifix, image,
picture, etc., esp. during Lent, or to cover the
chalice.
(rt) 1399 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 129 In salario Johannis
Payntour pictantis j magnum vale ad cooperiendum crucem
stantem infra corpus ecclesise in Quadragesima. 1501 Ace,
Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 64 For xliiij elne lynnyn claith,
that wes antependis and vales in the Kirk of Strivelin. 1570
B. GooGE Pop. Kingd, 1. 11 One vp a lofte the patten
holdes, enclosde in silken vayle. X728 Chambers Cycl. s.v.,
In the Romish Churches, in time of Lent, they have Veils,
or large Curtains over the Altar, Crucifix, Images of the
Saints, &c. X78» in J. H. Harting Hist, Sardinian Chapel
(1905) 25 Burseand veil for the chalice, veils for Benediction
and the desk. ^ 1877 J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 427
There was a similar veil used also for covering over the
Sepulchre on Good Friday.
(/') 178X Gibbon Decl.^F. xix. (1787) 11. 151 He.. respectfully
unfolded the silken veil which covered the haughty
epistle of his sovereign.
h.Jig. Something which conceals, covers, or hides;
a disguising or obscuring medium or influence ; a
cloak or mask. (Common in the 19th c.)
a. Of immaterial things, f Under veil^ sur-
reptitiously.
1382 Wyclif 2 Cor. iii. 15 But til in to this day, whanne
Moyses is radd, the veyl is putt vpon her hertis.
14x2-20 Lydg. Chron. Troy iv, 4542 Daunz Anthenor, and
Pollydamas, pat ban contreued amonge hem outterly, And
vnder veil concelyd secrely, Jiffe [etc.]. 1597 Hooker Eccl.
Pol,y, Iv. §8 Till that hunnlitie which had bene before as
a vaile to hide and conceale maiestie were layd aside. 161 z
Bible Transl. Pre/ r 17 Hee remoueth the scales from our
eyes, the vaile from our hearts. 1619 Sir H. Wotton in
EHg. ^ Germ. (Camden) 51, I have likewise a zeale to the
cause, which I hope wilbe some vaile to myne other infirmities.
x66o Jer. Tavlor Worthy Communicant i. iv. 90 For
Christ in the Sacrament is Christ under a vail, a 1735
Lansdowne Progr. Beauty 242 Hide with a vail those
griefs that none can paint. 1783 W, Thomson Watson's
Philip III, VI. {1839) 337 His indulgence to the reformed
religion covered the violence of his usurpations with a
specious veil, 1820 Shelley Naples 93 From Nature's
inmost shrine, Strip every impious gawd, rend Error veil
by veil. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 1006 The
thickest veil covers the whole of these processes ; and so far
have philosophers hitherto been from removing this veil,
that they have not even been able to approach it. 1898
•Merbiman' Rodents Comer xvii. 182 Tearing aside the
veils behind which human hearts have slept through many
years.
b. Const, ^(with defining term).
1382 Wyclif Wisd. xvii. 3 Bi the derc veil of for3eting
thei ben scatered,. .and with..myche w[o]ndring disturbid.
a 1475 in Contin. Brut 601 Thou, shewyng there a face
ful benygne, Vndyr a veyle of fals decepcioun. 1543-4 Act
35 Hen. yilly c. 1 The vaile of darcknes of the vsurped
power.. of the see and bishoppes of Rome. 1598 Shaks.
Merry W. ill. ii. 42, I will.,piucke the borrowed vaile of
modestie from the so-seeming Mist. Page, a 1639 W.
Whatklev Prototypes i. xi. (1640) 90 To use the mantle or
veile of love to cover a multitude of sinnes. 1681 Wvndham
King's Concealment 86 Striving to cover her trouble with
the vail of chearfulness. 1719 Young Busiris 11. i. That
chastity of look, which seems to hang A vail of purest light
o'er all her beauties. 1769 Robertson C/ias. K, vm. III. 77