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▪ I. vide, v.1|vaɪd| [Aphetic form of divide v.] 1. = divide v. 1. Now only in U.S. Blacks' use.
c1400Destr. Troy 1249 The bourder of his basnet [he] brestes in sonder, And videt the viser with a vile dynt. 1935Z. 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.
1893Harper's Mag. Dec. 39/2 This is usually done by shouting ‘Divide! divide!’ or, as the word is generally pronounced, ‘'Vide! 'vide!’ 1908H. W. Lucy Mem. Eight Parliaments vi. 242 Opposite and around him was a crowd of hilarious gentlemen shouting ‘'Vide! 'vide! 'vide!’ 1951J. 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.
1565Cooper Thesaurus App., Pysades, the sonne of Strophius:..Vide Pisades. 1626Bacon Sylva §59 For which I haue compounded an Ointment of Excellent Odour, which I call Roman Ointment, vide the Receit. 1699Evelyn Acetaria 51 The Limon is somewhat more acute, cooling and extinguishing Thirst... Vide Limon. 1713Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 111 She then referr'd them to a place In Virgil, vide Dido's case. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 33 Vide Rollin passim. 1837Wilkinson Mann. & Cust. Anc. Egypt ii. (1841) I. 66 note, Vide my Egypt and Thebes, p. 194 note. 1857Gosse Omphalos xii. 354 note, I have already proved that blood must have been in..the newly-created Man (vide p. 276, supra). |