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vowed, ppl. a.|vaʊd|
[f. vow v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Of persons:
†a. Bound by religious vows. Obs.
1532More Confut. Tindale ii. vi. Wks. 654/2 A man professynge once vowed chastitie, was for all that at hys lawefull lybertie to wedde a vowed professed nunne. 1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 140 One of those vowed virgins to God..had her departing shewed vnto her the same night in a vision. 1581Allen Apol. 60 Incestuous mariages of vowed persons, spoile of Churches. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 154 One Isola Heton widow..made sute to King Henry the sixth, that shee might be an Anchoresse, or vowed recluse. a1708T. Ward Eng. Ref. iii. (1710) 55 How Durst you seise Church-Lands, Rob Priests and Poor, And turne the Vow'd Religious out of Door?
absol.1565Harding Confut. ii. viii. 73 b, The vowed be forbidden mariage by expresse word of God.
b. Devoted to some service or cause.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 308 Neither hath there chaunced as yet any suche controversie in the Counsell, that I neded any suche addicted and vowed men. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 82 Seeing thou hast made a rape of faire Samela, one of her vowed Shepheards is come..to challenge thee to single combate. 1655Ld. Norwich in Nicholas Papers (Camden) III. 227 Your Mati⊇s all vowed and most obedient subiect and seruant. 1825Scott Talism. i, The Crusader..as a vowed champion of the Cross..might have preferred the latter. 1836Keble in Lyra Apost. (1849) 105 The champions vow'd of truth and purity.
†c. United by vows; betrothed or wedded. Obs.
1577Grange Golden Aphrod. L iij b, I craue it not for my selfe but for my vowed wyfe. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 553 He was absolutely taken with one Gabrielis Estræa, a Noble Woman, but led aside from the Embraces of her vowed Husband.
d. Confirmed (in hostility) by a vow or solemn resolve.
1583B. Melbancke Philotimus T iv, Thy vowed enemie Aurelia. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 19 The troubler of my happie peace, And vowed foe of my felicitie. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. xix. (1821) 204 He was a vowed enemy to the English Government. 1810Scott Lady of L. v. v, Whence the bold boast by which you show Vich-Alpine's vow'd and mortal foe?
†e. transf. Pertaining to a devotee. Obs.—1
1665T. Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 49 Others, after the old manner of Mourning, in a vowed Habit, promise and swear, Never to cut their Hair, untill they had revenged the Blood of those Noble-men.
2. Undertaken or performed in consequence of, or under the sanction of, a vow.
1532[see 1 a]. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 25 Why do they wery themselues with vowed pilgrimages to visit those images wherof they haue like at home. 1626Donne Serm., Luke ii. 29–30 (1640) 30 Nothing that countenances a vowed virginity, to the dishonour or undervaluing of marriage. 1712P. Metcalfe Life S. Winefride (1917) 7 S. Wenefride offer'd herself a Sacrifice, to preserve her Vow'd Virginity. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God I. xi. 280 That the Religious might not over-value themselves on Account of their Vowed Poverty. 1818Shelley Rosal. & Helen 342 That mother Whom to outlive, and cheer, and make My wan eyes glitter for her sake, Was my vowed task.
†b. Solemnly consecrated or dedicated. Obs.
1585C. Fetherstone tr. Calvin on Acts xxiii. 16 Paul shoulde come out on the morrowe to be slaine, as a vowed sacrifice. 1591Spenser Virg. Gnat 603 Curtius..stifly bent his vowed life to spill. c1630Milton 5th Ode Horace 13 Me in my vow'd Picture the sacred wall declares t'have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of Sea. 1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3) 181 These Vow'd Pictures we generally find in all the Churches of Italy.
c. Confirmed by a vow or vows; solemnly promised or guaranteed.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iv. 18 Our selues in league of vowed loue we knit. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 209 This is the hand, which with a vowd contract Was fast belockt in thine. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. xv. 111 She would not suffer the memory of their vowed love to be blotted out with absence. 1655Ld. Norwich in Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 259, I may without danger now present my humblest and all vowed duty to you. 1697Dryden æneid ix. 365 No fate my vow'd affection shall divide From thee, heroick youth! 1704J. Trapp Abra-Mulé v. i. 2544 Nor Fate, nor you, can my vow'd Faith control.
d. Solemnly sworn or threatened.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 8 Of his way he had no souenance, Nor care of vow'd reuenge, and cruell fight. 1697Dryden æneid v. 1063, I sought with joy The vowed destruction of ungrateful Troy. Ibid. xii. 1355 If thy vow'd revenge pursue my death. 1808Scott Marm. i. xxii, The vow'd revenge of Bughtrig rude, May end in worse than loss of hood. |