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▪ I. voyage, n.|ˈvɔɪɪdʒ|
Forms: α. 3–4 veage, 6 Sc. weage (wewage, weavage), 7 Sc. veadge; 3 veiage, 3–4, 6 veyage (6 Sc. wey-); 4–6 vaiage, 5, 6 Sc., vayage, 5–6 Sc. wayag(e; 5 (9 dial.) vage, 5 vaig, 8–9 north., 9 Sc. vaige, 9 dial. vayge, Sc. vae(d)ge. β. 4–8 (9 dial.) viage (5 uiage, viagge, 6 viadge, viegde), 4–6 vyage (4 uyage); 5 Sc. wiage, 5–6 wyage. γ. 5–7 voiage (6 voiadge, 7 voige), 5– voyage (6 voyaige, 7 -adge); Sc. 5 woyage, 6 wo(v)age, 7 woag.
[a. AF. and OF. veage, veiage, vayage, and voiage, -aige, voage, vouaige (F. voyage), = Prov. viatge, Sp. viage, Pg. viagem, It. viaggio:—L. viāticum provision for a journey, viaticum.]
1. An act of travelling († or transit), a journey († or passage), by which one goes from one place to another (esp. at a considerable distance).
a. In the phrases to take or make (a, the, or one's) voyage. Now rare.
In early use including travel by sea as well as by land; for quotations in which the nautical sense is clear see 4 b.
(a)1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4920 + 85 Cadwal in Yrlonde ys ost ȝarkede vaste & vorþ toward þys lond þe veage nome. 1375Barbour Bruce xiv. 117 He his viage soyne has tane, And straucht toward the plas is gane. 1390Gower Conf. II. 8 He hath himself conformed..To schape and take the viage Homward. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1262 Seint Ambroses legende seith, how he Ones to Rome-ward took his viage. c1440Generydes 226 Now to this lady lete vs turne ageyn, Whiche to Surry hath take hir viage. 1564Haward tr. Eutropius iv. 41 The consuls toke then their viage to invade Carthage. a1575tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden, No. 36) 43 Thei..toke their viage toward Rome, destroying all thinges on everie side. 1584B. R. tr. Herodotus ii. 76 b, We must take our voyage on foote the space of forty dayes by the waters side. 1647Hexham i, To take a Viage, reysen.
(b)1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3746 To helle þou makyst þy vyage. c1325Metr. Hom. 54, I mac mi vaiage, Til sain Jam in pilgrimage. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiv. 152 It schuld be a lang tyme are þat vaiage ware made. 1484Caxton Fables of Auian viii, To make better theyr vyage they were sworne eche one to the other that none of them bothe should leue other. 1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xxix. (1588) 291 A marchant man maketh far viages and great iourneis..for worldly and transitory gain. 1579Poor Knt.'s Pal. Priv. Pleas. (Roxb.) B iij, This is shee..whom once within the Lake, I shewed vnto Robinson, as our viage wee did make. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. vii. (1592) 27 And Hercules to Calidon a Dismall viage makes. 1860R. Noel Vac. Tour 467 A voyage I made by a very unfrequented path from Cæsarea to Nazareth.
b. In other contexts. Now rare.
αc1400Ywaine & Gaw. 532 Swith, he sayd, wendes with me, Whoso wil that wonder se... Thar was none so litel page That he ne was fayn of that vayage. 1560Rolland Seven Sages 12 To Romes Court the way thay held on richt. Thir seuin Maisters thair veyage passing on [etc.]. a1585Montgomerie Cherry & Slae 625 (Laing MS.), Bot fra we gett our wayage win, thay sall nocht than the cherrie cun. 1875[W. Alexander] Sk. Life Ain Folk 195 Mains of Puddleweal sent his carts on a weekly ‘vaege’ to the burgh of Innerebrie to fetch his supplies of lime.
β1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 90 He went þat viage To William þe rede kyng, þer he was in Wales. c1386Chaucer Prol. 792 That ech of yow to shorte with oure weye In this viage shal telle tales tweye. c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. xli. (1859) 46 Theyr iourney was fully adetermyned and theyr vyage endyd. c1440Gesta Rom. xxxvi. 140 (Harl. MS.), He thowte to visite þe holy londe,..and he ordeynid þerefore and made al thinge redy for his viage. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. iv. (1883) 108 Hit is a fowle thynge..whan a man is at ende of his Iourney for to lengthe his viage. 1533Bellenden Livy (S.T.S.) I. 80 Latumo and his wiffe Tanaquill war passand in ane chariot, with þar gudis tursit with þame in þare viage. 1552T. Barnabe in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 197 As for the realme of France besyde, I ought to knowe yt, for I have ben xxviij viages in France in poste for the Kings Majestie. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. xxiii. 14 It seemed sore to trot al afoote ouer the Pyrenees and Alpes, and huge long viages at smal ease in their armour. a1672Wood Life (1848) 85 note, I humbly desire your H. to thinke that the ocasion of my stay hear is nott for any dislike of the viage.
γ1527St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 204, I have declared unto Your Grace the successes of al such thinges, as have chaunced in my voyage. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. i, [It was resolved] that for the more suretie of his voyage, he shoulde returne by Sea. 1601Holland Pliny I. 133 For as much as..the travellers are forced to rest all the day long, therefore twelve daies are set down for the whole voiage betweene Coptus and Berenice. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. ii. 285/1 Such as hauing vowed their voiage and seruice for Ierusalem, wore continually vpon their backes a red Crosse. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. xv. 32 Jesus took an Account of the first legation and voyage of his Apostles. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 147 Upon the mountains we passed over this voyage, we found a great number of plants we had not before met with. 1745Pococke Descr. East II. 101 The pasha was lately returned from his voyage towards Mecca. 1808Pike Sources Mississ. ii. 178, I conceive that to be beneath the serious consideration of a man on a voyage of such a nature. 1825W. Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 50 The utmost extent of her voyages [from home] had been about two and a half miles. 1856Kane Arct. Exp. II. ii. 28, I was just beginning to hope for an easy voyage, when Toodla and the Big Yellow gave way nearly together. 1887–in dial. glossaries (Chesh., Lancs.).
transf.1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits iv. (1596) 38 If Galen had considered the demeanure and voiages of the ant..he would haue taken astonishment to see a beast so little endewed with so great sagenesse.
†c. A pilgrimage. Obs.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 238 Men that makis vowis of vaigis for the lufe of God. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vii. 155 How the kynge Charlemagne made a vyage to saynte Iames in Galice. 1518H. Watson Hist. Oliver of Castile (Roxb.) P 4 He came towarde y⊇ kynge and sayd to hym that he dyde owe a vyage to Saynt Iames, and that he muste nedes do it withouten ony companye.
†d. Without article: Travel, travelling. Obs.
1626Bacon New Atl. (1650) 11 All Nations have Enter⁓knowledge of one another, by Voyage into Forraigne Parts, or by Strangers that come to them.
†2. A journey or expedition undertaken with a military purpose; a warlike enterprise or undertaking; a march against an enemy. Obs.
α1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4509 Þo was þe king arþure vol of sorwe & sore..Þe veage toward Rome he bileuede vor þis cheance. Ibid. 8079 Sulue wimmen ne bileuede þat hii ne wende þuder vaste, Ne ȝong folc þei hii feble were, þe wule þe veage [= crusade] ilaste. 1491–2Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 102 Yt is so that the Kings grace hath appoynted my lord to wayt upon his grace, now at this his noble vage into France. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xxi. (S.T.S.) I. 215 Þai..bad þame pas fordwart..with gude werde, þat þe end of þare vayage mycht be respondent to þare begynnyng. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 337 Cardinal ægedie is sent frome Pape Honorie to Scotland, Legat, to require a gret soume of money..to helpe the veyage to Hierusalem.
β13..K. Alis. 5075 (Laud MS.), A morowe þe kyng & his baronage Wenten forþ in her viage. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 315 To Scotland now he fondes to redy his viage, With þritti þousand Walsh redy at his banere. 1375Barbour Bruce v. 207 His spek discomfort thame all sua, That thai had left haill that viage, Na war a knycht of gret corage. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 204 Al this forsaydyn hostynges, viages, and trauaill done and fufillid weryn in lytill more space than thre Monthes. a1450Knt. de la Tour 51 It happed that..the squier come from a uiage that he hadde ben atte. 1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 17 [He] had a gret discomfiture at the bataile of Agincourt..at his first viage. a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. clv. (1811) 143 Longe it were to tell all the circumstaunce of this vyage, & victoryes of the same. 1556Chron. Grey Friars (Camden) 23 Thys yere the kynge made a grete army into Scotland by hys brother the duke of Glocester, in the wyche viage he wane Barwike. 1590L. Lloyd Dial Daies Oct. 31 Mar. Scotus saith that he was slaine in his viage against the Parthians.
γ1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xv. 15 The kyng sent..a great ambassade to syr Iohn of Heynaulte, praying hym..to kepe company with hym in his voiage agaynste the Scottis. 1549Compl. Scotl. Ep. 4 The longinquite of his martial voyaige, ande the grite forse of the oriental pepil. 1584B. R. tr. Herodotus ii. 97 b, Sesostris dying,..hys sonne..vnder⁓tooke no voyage of warre, but remayned quiet in his kingdome. 1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. D 4, If you be a souldier, talke how often you haue beene in action: as the Portingale voyage, Cales voiage, the Iland voiage. 1613–8Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 193 Godfrey of Bouillon..was the first that offered vp himselfe to this Famous Voyage. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. x. 235 The Simeonites second voyage against the Amalekites in Mount Seir.
†b. In the phr. to make (or do) a voyage. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 89 Mithridates..helde þe kyngdom þre and fourty ȝere, in þe whiche tyme he dede many viage, and many faire victories hadde. c1470Henry Wallace iii. 118 The knycht Fenweik conwoide the caryage; He had on Scottis maid mony schrewide wiage. 1546Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 76 Achabe kyng of Israel, when he intended to make a viage, and to take by force the country..of Ramoth Giliade. 1598Drayton Heroical Ep. Notes (1599) 25 In the great voyage Edward the second made against the Scots, at the battell at Striueling [etc.]. 1686Voy. Emp. China in Misc. Cur. (1708) III. 179 The Emperour of China made a Voyage into Eastern Tartary, in the beginning of this Year 1682.
†c. voyage royal, an expedition undertaken by a king in person. Obs.
1544tr. Littleton's Tenures (1574) 20 When the king maketh a voyage roial in to Scotland for to subdue y⊇ Scots. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 248 Euen now his [Edward IV's] Feuer tercian, of the whiche he had languished sore, sithe his voyage royall into Fraunce, was sodainly turned into a vncurable quartain. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 157 More to be dreaded for their..furious incursions, then..that they are able to raise, or undertake any voiage royal. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. 44 For his [sc. Richard II's] first voyage in the eighteenth yeare of his raigne (which was indeed a Voyage-Royall) was made vpon another motiue. 1690(title), The Royal Voyage; or, the Irish Expedition.
†3. An enterprise, undertaking, or adventure of a private character (in early use implying the making of a journey). Obs.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 535 Þen þenkkez Gawan ful sone, Of his anious uyage. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 732 Ek diane I the biseke That this viagge be nat to the loth. 1390Gower Conf. I. 353 This worthi kniht of his corage Hath undertake the viage. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 2511, I am meved of pite,..þat ȝe of volunte..List take on ȝow þis merveillous viage. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn lii. 198 Madame, yf your wyll be, I shall gladli tak this vyage in hande, and I shall neuer rest noo where tyl that I haue founde blanchardyn. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. iv. 59 Sum vncouth vaiage I purpoisit prepare, Bot not sa vncouth as was preparit for me. 1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune ii. lxxxiii. 266 b, Takyng in hand an easie viage towardes thine ende. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 185 If hee should intend this voyage toward my wife, I would turne her loose to him. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl iii. i, I thinke I fight with a familiar, or the Ghost of a fencer, Sh' has wounded me gallantly, call you this a letcherous viage?
†b. In the phr. to do (or make) a voyage. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 75 He..caste and knew in goode plyte was þe moone To doon viage and take his way ful sone Vnto his neces paleys ther bysyde. c1380Sir Ferumb. 804 Y for-bed hem..fro þenne þay ne scholde go, Or ich hadde sum viage done & til hem come ageyn. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. v. (Skeat) l. 84 If thou drede suche jangleres, thy viage to make, understand wel [etc.]. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. iv. 169 If you make your voyage vpon her, and giue me directly to vnderstand, you haue preuayl'd, I am no further your Enemy.
4. A journey by sea or water from one place to another (usually to some distant place or country); a course or spell of sailing or navigation, spec. one in which a return is made to the starting-point; a cruise.
Arising from contextual uses of senses 1 and 2, and clearly separable from these only after the ME. period. For the phr. † bon(e voyage, boun voyage, boon voyage see boon a. 2.
αc1310St. Brendan 152 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 224 ‘Wendeþ forþ a-godes name: þat þis veyage were ido!’ Seint Brendan & his breþeren to schipe wende anon. 1555Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 495/1 That nane..cary ony victuallis talloun or flesche..except samekill at salbe thair necessare victualling for thair veyage. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 121 The skipper of the schip..said ‘God send ws better handsell and mair forder in our wayage.’ 1641Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 494/2 Ane impost..of tuo shilling scottes to be payed vpoun the tune of all shipes and vesshellis..be Natiues and four shillingis money foir⁓said to be payed be straingeres for ilke veadge. 1784Bishoprick Garl. (1906) 52 There was a poor little lad that had come a trial vaige to sea. 1887J. M. E. Saxby Lads of Lunda (1888) 123, I don't think there will be much done at the haaf this vaige.
βc1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8840 When he wyste why þat he cam [to Ireland], & so fer viage for stones nam, He scorned þem on his langage. c1400Mandeville (1839) Prol. 4 It is longe tyme passed, that ther was no generalle Passage ne Vyage over the See. 1442Rolls of Parlt. V. 60/2 [That] noon of the seid vesselles..attendyng to the same viage, be arrested for any viage of oure Souverain Lord ye King. 1492Act. Dom. Conc. (1839) 275 Þe proffitis & dewiteis..of þe said auchtane parte of a hale Raiss in zeland..and als of half a danskin viage. 1506Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 206 To Thomas Hathowy to furnis the Kingis schip in the Northland the secund viage, for tymir. 1579Twyne Phil. agst. Fortune i. i. 2 They that fare by Sea, they are caried away in the shypps, and feele not howe, and many tymes are at their viage ende before they be ware. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1369/1 For want of vittels and other necessaries (needful in so long a viage)..[he] was inforced to set saile and returne for England. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 6 The Portugales whose viages beyond the cape of Good Hope..are more true than in reason likely.
γ1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 25 Paid..to John Cappe..after the said voiage into the parties of Lumbardie..for the stopping of lekes & castyng Balast. 1599Hakluyt Voy. I. Pref. **2, There they shall read of Godredus the sonne of Olauus his voiage to the king of Norway. 1625N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vii. (1635) 126 This North-west passage is a long voyage, and hath bin for a long time sought. 1626Bacon New Atl. 12 The Navigation of the World (specially for remote Voiages) was greater then at this day. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 923 Where the Spanish Negotiation was short and safe, it enticed Seamen, by their good will, to avoid long Voyages. 1748Anson's Voy. Introd., A Voyage round the World promises a species of information, of all others the most desirable and interesting. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 346 Those who had set sail five months before, were not in the least farther advanced in their voyage, than those who waited for the favourable wind. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 165 Ships were sent out to different seas, and had prosperous voyages. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Voyage, a journey by sea. It usually includes the outward and homeward trips, which are called passages. 1903F. T. Bullen Sea Wrack 310 note, The round trip from home back to home again constitutes the ‘voyage’, all the port to port journeys are ‘passages’.
fig.1864Browning J. Lee's Wife ii. iv, With whom began Love's voyage full-sail.
b. In the phrases to take or make a voyage. Cf. 1 a. Also transf.
(a)c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) Pref. 2 Wald Godd þat þer werldly lordes ware at gude accorde, and..wald take þis haly viage ouer þe see. 1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 12 The said king Edward..tooke his vyage to Cane withe xijc shippis. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 10 Thir men of weir tuk vayage and sailled to Scotland. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 233 Quhen S. Columba did sayl in Yrland, thay to the Jle of Jon tuik thair vaiage. 1819Keats Lamia ii. 180 Fifty wreaths of smoke From fifty censers their light voyage took To the high roof.
(b)14..Sir Beues (O.) 388 Ouer they made gode viage. The sayll they drew, the wynd was good. 1475Nottingham Rec. II. 387 We..purpose..incontinent þerupon, as winde and weder wol serue, to make our viage into France. 1530Hickscorner 820 For yf I myȝt make iii good vyages to Shoter's Hyl,..Than wolde I never travell the see more. c1580in Eng. Hist. Rev. July (1914) 518 This viadge ys to be made in 3 wekes yf winde and wether sarve. 1584D. Powel Lloyd's Cambria 87 Cnute king of England about this time made a viage to Denmarke. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche ii. 179 It is a full Commission By which he made this voyage. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. iv. i. 139 In five Voyages made before that way, [I] knew by Experience there is a Current.
†c. A (single or return) passage or trip on a canal-boat. Obs.
1774Ann. Reg., Chron. 145 From Manchester to Warrington..the third cabbin 1 s for the passage or voyage upon the canal. 1805Z. Allnutt Navig. Thames 15 The Toll of 4d per Ton a Voyage on all Barges. A Voyage, is a Trip to London and back again, being two Passages.
d. A flight through the air (or through space); esp. a trip in a balloon.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 431 So stears the prudent Crane Her annual Voiage, born on Windes. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. ii. It was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four days and an half. 1785V. Lunardi Five Aerial Voyages (1786) 30 After a most delightful and glorious voyage of 46 miles, 36 over the water and 10 over land. 1826Mechanics' Mag. VI. 285/2 An aerial voyage, remarkable for its duration, was accomplished at Paris on the 19th of September, 1784. 1860Chambers's Encycl. I. 646/2 Before they [sc. fire-balloons] became obsolete, several remarkable voyages were made in them. 1893Sir R. Ball Story of Sun 290 The Earth in its annual voyage round the sun.
e. spec. In marine insurance: (see quot.).
1848Arnould Marine Insur. i. xii. I. 333 The voyage insured.., a technical term, which must be carefully distinguished from the actual voyage of the ship,..is a transit at sea from the terminus a quo to the terminus ad quem in a prescribed course of navigation..which is never set out in any policy.
f. voyage of discovery (discovery 3), in fig. use.
1857Ducange Anglicus Vulg. Tong., Voyage of discovery, going out stealing. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 227 After a voyage of discovery round the yard at full speed, [the cattle] return..into the lane.
5. Used fig. (in senses 1 or 4) to denote the course of human life (or some part of it), or the fate of persons after death.
1390Gower Conf. III. 326 Fourtiene yer sche was of Age, Whan deth hir tok to his viage. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. xv, As the schip that sailith stereles,..So standis thou here..And wantis that suld gyde all thy viage. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 98 Cristallyne water to hym so comfortable. Al his viage bothe in breede and lengthe. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 12 b, Man receyueth by grace all thynges expedyent and necessary for hym in his vyage and pilgrymage. 1529Sir T. More Dyaloge i. Wks. 175/2 Yt much more special assistence of god with his christen churche in their spiritual viage. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iv. iii. 220 There is a Tide in the affayres of men, Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miseries. 1604T. Wright Passions vi. 345 Blocks and stones our ghostly enemies cast in the narrow way that leadeth to heaven, to hinder our voyage. 1697Vanbrugh Prov. Wife v. v, So, now I am in for Hobbes's voyage; a great leap in the dark. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. vi. 60 And what I say to Papists I say to all Protestants, if you like to be Priest⁓ridden, farewel—a good Voyage to you. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl., Let. to Sir W. Phillips 18 July, Among our fellow-lodgers at Berwick, was a couple from London, bound to Edinburgh on the voyage of matrimony. 1779Cowper Human Frailty 17 Bound on a voyage of awful length,..A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. 1813Shelley Q. Mab. ix. 174 Fear not then, Spirit, Death's disrobing hand..'Tis but the voyage of a darksome hour. 1877Tennyson Sir J. Franklin 3 And thou..Art passing on thine happier voyage now Toward no earthly pole.
6.
†a. The navigation of a particular sea-route; the course or route (to be) taken by a ship. Obs.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 1087 Vnder y⊇ name of Tharsis (as some think) is signified some sea yt was farre of, and whose voiage was very long. 1694W. King Animadv. Acc. Denmark i. 7 Any Sea-man, who is acquainted with that Voyage, will tell you that he would ten times rather venture amongst the Rocks of Norway in a Storm, than the Sands of England. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 111 The Mate being unacquainted with the Voyage and declaring himself to be so, shall nevertheless be obliged to remain with the Ship, if the Master requires it.
b. A vessel as fitted out for sailing.
1826Kent Comm. (1858) III. xlvii. §209 When the voyage is ready, the master is bound to sail as soon as the wind and tide permit.
c. Whaling. (See quot.)
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 497 Voyage, among whalers, each man calls his share of the proceeds of the cruize, which he receives instead of wages, his voyage.
d. The quantity of fish taken in one trip or by one boat.
1897Clay & Co. Company Prospectus, The daily arrival of vessels with voyages of live and fresh fish... The Pontoon where the voyages are landed from the vessels and sold.
7. A written account of a voyage, a book describing a voyage (or journey).
From the frequent use of the word in the titles of narratives of voyages.
1587Hakluyt (title), A Notable Historie, containing foure Voyages, made by Certaine French Captaines into Florida. 1699W. Hacke (title), A Collection of Original Voyages. 1704Churchill (title), A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some now first Printed from Original Manuscripts. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 21 Those of the same kind, which have been collected in the following Voyage, exhibit no regular difference from each other. Ibid. 284 The most authentic traditions of Historians, which I found in great numbers in the Voyages of Pausanias into Greece. 1877Quaritch Catalogue 1476 De Bry's Collection of Voyages to the East and West Indies.
8. attrib. and Comb., as voyage-writer; † voyage food, provision, = viaticum 1; voyage policy (see quot.).
1610*Voyage food [see viaticum 1].
1848Arnould Marine Insur. i. ii. §1. I. 19 A *voyage policy is one in which the limits of the risk are designated in the policy by specifying a certain place at which the voyage is to begin.
1562Apol. Priv. Masse (1850) 11 Their viaticum, as it is termed in the old canons, that is to say, their *voyage⁓provision. 1564Harding Answ. Jewel ix. 123 So it be reuerently kepte for the viage prouision for the sicke, no catholike man will maineteine strife for the maner and order of keping.
1705Addison Italy, Pesaro 165, I shall say nothing of the Via Flaminia, which has been describ'd by all the *Voyage-Writers that have pass'd it. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 1 Apr., The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. 1757Foote Author i. Wks. 1799 I. 137 Except Peter Hasty, the voyage-writer, he was as great a loss to the trade as any within my memory.
▪ II. voyage, v.|ˈvɔɪɪdʒ|
Also 5 voiage, 5–6 vyage, 9 dial. v'yage, Sc. vaeg.
[ad. F. voyager, † voiager (15th c.), or f. voyage n.]
1. intr. To journey by land; to travel. Now rare.
1477Caxton Jason 26 His legges were Royde like a voyager that had alle the day to fore haue voiaged or goon a Iourney. 1490― Eneydos xv. 57 And in vyagynge thrughe the landes, [fame] hideth her hede bytwyx the clowdes. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. viii. 42 Although my life hath not bin unexpensive in learning, and voyaging about. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode ii. i, A gentleman, sir,..who has haunted the best conversations, and who, in short, has voyaged. 1778Foote Trip to Calais i. Wks. 1799 II. 344 Nothing can be so vulgar in France, as voyaging about with one's wife. 1898C. Lee Paul Carah ii. 30 Half over the States I've been, an' into Canady—v'yaged thousands o' miles, 'a b'lieve.
†2. To carry out an enterprise. Obs.—1
c1500Melusine 171 The maister [of Rhodes] recounted..all thauentures that had happed to them. ‘By my feyth’ said the kyng, ‘ye haue worthyly vyaged.
3. To go by sea; to sail or cruise; to make a voyage or voyages. Also in fig. context.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxxi. 294 All that have voyaged thither, have been curious to carry seedes of all sorts, and all have grown. 1624Donne Ess. Div. (1651) 37 Men which seek God by reason..are like Mariners which voyaged before the invention of the Compass. 1700Pomfret Reason 133 Oh! what an ocean must be voyag'd o'er, To gain a prospect of the shining shore! 1725Pope Odyss. i. 340 Voyaging to learn the direful art To taint with deadly drugs the barbed dart. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 137 The Dutch ships, voyaging between New Guinea and Aroo,..frequently see flocks of birds of Paradise. 1819Byron Juan ii. xliii, He was a man of years, And long had voyaged through many a stormy sea. 1846Hawthorne Mosses ii. viii. (1864) 171 Having voyaged across the Atlantic for that sole purpose. 1875Chambers' Jrnl. 2 Jan. 7 More than seventy merchant-ships, voyaging in almost every ocean.
fig.1805Wordsw. Prelude iii. 63 His..silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. 1819Shelley Lett. Pr. Wks. 1888 II. 305, I have lately been voyaging in a sea without any pilot. a1873Lytton Pausanias iii. i. (1876) 220 Voyagers that never voyaged thither save in song. 1894H. Drummond Ascent Man 300 It is not for food that the plant-world voyages into foreign spheres, but to perfect the supremer labour of life.
b. transf. Of things: To move through the water or air. Also fig.
1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xvi. (1850) 243 In Britain..it [the cholera] voyaged along the coasts with the speed of the trading vessels. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xliii. (1856) 402 We could see them many fathoms below, voyaging again to the upper world. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 42 A log comes floating on,..having voyaged..hundreds of miles. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 178 Grand clouds still voyaged in the sky.
4. trans. To cross or travel over; to traverse; to sail over or on. Also fig.
1667Milton P.L. x. 471 Long were to tell What I have don, what sufferd, with what paine Voyag'd th' unreal, vast, unbounded deep Of horrible confusion. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 361 Him, thus voyaging the deeps below, From far..The King of Ocean saw. 1793Coleridge Lines Autumnal Even. 44 O heed the spell, and hither wing your way, Like far-off music, voyaging the breeze! 1849J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 259 Last time we voyaged the Loch you said a few words. 1890Century Mag. Aug. 636/1 The Rhône of to-day must be something like the Rhine of fifty years ago, though much less voyaged now than that was then. |