▪ I. † vade, n. Obs.—1
[ad. L. vadum.]
A shallow place in a river.
| 1538 Leland Itin. (1769) V. 94 Irwel is not navigable but in sum Places for Vadys and Rokkes. |
▪ II. † vade, v.1 Obs.
[var. of fade v.1, chiefly used in fig. senses (very common c 1530–1630) and app. to some extent associated with L. vādĕre to go: see next, to which some of the quotations placed under 3–3 c may really belong.
This association may be the real explanation of the form, but see the note to fade a.2]
1. intr. Of colour: = fade v.1 4.
| 1471 Ripley Comp. Alch. Pref. in Ashm. (1652) 127 Colour whych wyll not vade. c 1532 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 956 To vade, ternir. a 1586 Sidney Astr. & Stella (1622) 578 How doth the colour vade of those vermillion dies. 1594 Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 45 As soone as the beautiful hew of the leaues begin to vade. 1613 Answ. Uncasing Machiav. E iv b, Whose colours never vade. 1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis xvii. 4 The staines of sin I see Are vaded all, or di'd in graine. |
2. Of flowers, etc.: = fade v.1 1.
| 1492 [see 3 b]. c 1532 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 894 Rose that can nat vade, rose immarcessible. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 1 Small grayish leaves..the whiche do perish and vade in winter. 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, i. ii. 20 One flourishing branch of his most Royall roote..Is hackt downe, and his summer leafes all vaded. 1621 Lady M. Wroth Urania 22 Do not the flowers vade, and grasse die for her departure? |
3. To pass away, disappear, vanish; to decay or perish; = fade v.1 6.
| 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxxvi. 564 Aege that passyth & vadyth chaungyth tymes of thynges. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. IV (1550) 4 When he departed, the only shelde, defence and comfort of the common people was vadid and gone. 1568 T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 19 Forme is most frayle,..it vadth as grasse doth growe. 1607 Middleton Fam. Love i. i, I know how soon their love vadeth. 1641 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. 324 Where..beauty never fadeth, love never faileth, health never vadeth. a 1678 Marvell Poems, Clorinda & Damon (1681) 12 Grass withers; and the Flow'rs too fade. Seize the short Ioyes then, ere they vade. |
b. Const. from, into, to.
| 1492 Ryman Poems lxxxiv. 2 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXIX. 253 As medowe floures..Vadeth to erthe..Likewise richesse and grete honoures Shall vade fro euery creature. c 1537 Thersites D ij, The cowherd of Comertowne, with his croked spade, Cause frome the the wormes soone to vade. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. ii. 40 How euer gay their blossome or their blade Doe flourish now, they into dust shall vade. 1663 Cane Ep. to Author of Animad. Fiat Lux 96 All your talk in this your eighteenth chapter vades into nothing. |
c. With away.
| 1530 Proper Dyaloge in Roy's Rede me, etc. (Arb.) 133 Affermynge that oure loue shuld a-way vade Without any memory of them at all. 1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 38 The time thus doth consume & wear, the night doth vade away. 1625 Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1761 The bankes of sand doe fleet and vade away out of the river. |
▪ III. † vade, v.2 Obs.
[ad. L. vādĕre to go; cf. prec.]
1. To go away, depart. rare.
| 1569 E. Elviden Pesistratus & Catanea (Bynneman), Then proclamation made That Pisistrate to proper soile should vade. 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. ii. (1818) 67 Beauty feedeth, beauty fadeth, Beauty lost, her lover vadeth. |
2. To proceed, advance.
| a 1660 Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) II. 5 You are too yonge to vade unto these graue matters. |
▪ IV. vade
obs. Sc. form of wade v.