▪ I. vide, v.1
(vaɪd)
[Aphetic form of divide v.]
1. = divide v. 1. Now only in U.S. Blacks' use.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 1249 The bourder of his basnet [he] brestes in sonder, And videt the viser with a vile dynt. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men 20 'Way after while when He ketch dat Jew, He's goin' to 'vide things up more ekal'. |
2. as int. A set parliamentary cry for the division of the house into two groups voting on each side of a question for the purpose of counting. Cf. divide v. 10.
| 1893 Harper's Mag. Dec. 39/2 This is usually done by shouting ‘Divide! divide!’ or, as the word is generally pronounced, ‘'Vide! 'vide!’ 1908 H. W. Lucy Mem. Eight Parliaments vi. 242 Opposite and around him was a crowd of hilarious gentlemen shouting ‘'Vide! 'vide! 'vide!’ 1951 J. Biggs-Davison George Wyndham xiv. 206 From the Conservative Back Benches came a shout of ‘'Vide! 'Vide!’ |
▪ II. ‖ vide, v.2 imp.
(ˈvaɪdɪ, ˈvɪdeɪ, ˈviːdeɪ)
[L. vidē, imp. sing. of vidēre to see.]
‘See, refer to, consult’; a direction to the reader to refer to some other heading, passage, or work (or to a table, diagram, etc.) for fuller or further information.
Freq. abbreviated as vid.: see 1; also occas. as v. V 5.
| 1565 Cooper Thesaurus App., Pysades, the sonne of Strophius:..Vide Pisades. 1626 Bacon Sylva §59 For which I haue compounded an Ointment of Excellent Odour, which I call Roman Ointment, vide the Receit. 1699 Evelyn Acetaria 51 The Limon is somewhat more acute, cooling and extinguishing Thirst... Vide Limon. 1713 Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 111 She then referr'd them to a place In Virgil, vide Dido's case. 1823 J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 33 Vide Rollin passim. 1837 Wilkinson Mann. & Cust. Anc. Egypt ii. (1841) I. 66 note, Vide my Egypt and Thebes, p. 194 note. 1857 Gosse Omphalos xii. 354 note, I have already proved that blood must have been in..the newly-created Man (vide p. 276, supra). |