vien.1
/viː/ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > literature about > story or account of
viea1200
legenda1400
a1200 St. Marher. 34 Here i mai tellen ou..The vie of one meidan, was hoten Maregrete.
a1225 Juliana 2 Her cumseð þe uie of seinte iuliane, ant telleð of liflade hire.
a1300 Marina 227 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 173 He þat made & wrot þis vie, & hyre haþ in memorie, From shome Crist him shilde.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > of a person or in life
bewistc1200
vie1377
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot
lotOE
chance1297
fallc1300
weirds1320
cuta1340
fatec1374
vie1377
parta1382
foredoom1563
event1577
allotment1586
fatality1589
kincha1600
lines1611
fortunea1616
dispensation1704
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 122 Angeles þat in helle now ben, hadden ioye some tyme, And diues in deyntees lyued, and in douce vye.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21740 Þe croice..es..Fondement of ur clergi, Reule it es of hali vi.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3474 Oure lauerd..Had don hir in to sikernes,..Quat suld be þaa childer vie, O þair weird and o þair lijf.
Compounds
/vi/ Used in a number of modern French phrases.
vie de Bohème n. /də bɔɛm/ a Bohemian way of life; also attributive.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society > way of life, condition, or domain of
vie de Bohème1888
beatness1951
outsiderishness1956
outsiderliness1957
outsiderdom1958
outsiderhood1958
outsiderism1958
outsiderness1961
flower power1967
hippiedom1967
hippieland1967
boho1979
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. vii. 174 That golden vie de Bohème which she alone apparently of all artists was destined never to know.
1957 ‘P. Quentin’ Suspicious Circumstances i. 5 Two days later I was installed in a suitably Vie de Bohème apartment looking out on the Luxembourg gardens.
1980 S. T. Haymon Death & Pregnant Virgin ii. 12 Who could have prophesied that Paul Falkener, that personification of the vie de Bohème, would fall so completely under her spell?
vie de château n. /də ʃɑto/ the way of life of a large country house; aristocratic social life.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > aristocratic life
high life?a1518
aristocraticism1860
posh1915
vie de château1924
1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl i. vii. 61 Is there a vie de château in the neighbourhood?
1979 A. Buchan Scrap Screen i. 4 The denigrated sentiment of nostalgia..feeds on reconstructions of the vie de château.
vie de luxe n. /də lyks/ a life of luxury.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [noun]
softnessOE
voluptuositya1380
voluptuoustya1382
delicacya1393
deliciousnessa1500
volupteousness1526
niceness1540
nicety1542
wealiness1545
luxe1558
voluptibility1631
luxury1633
voluptuousness1652
volupté1712
decadence1882
gracious living1892
vie de luxe1920
good life1937
dolce vita1961
sweet life1962
1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. Nov. (1928) II. 81 You realize the vie de luxe they are living—the very table— sweets, liqueurs, lilies, pearls.
1929 O. Seaman Interludes of Editor 81 And, when in Town you take your meed, I'll mark the vie de luxe you lead.
vie d'intérieur n. /dɛ̃terjœr/ private or domestic life.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > manner of life > specific
over-living1817
work life1850
pseudo-life1853
half-life1864
vie d'intérieur1889
anti-life1926
1889 M. S. van de Velde Cosmopolitan Recoll. I. vii. 235 Under the roof that shelters them it appears to her [sc. the Queen of Italy] that there is no room for that happy vie d'interieur of which she is so honestly fond.
1933 G. Arthur Septuagenarian's Scrap Bk. 201 The vie d'intérieur makes far less appeal. Take a look at the English drawing-room..conspiring to give a delicious sense of the room being lived in, a sense which is wholly foreign to the French salon.
vie en rose n. /ɑ̃ roz/ [apparently from a French song by Edith Piaf containing the line ‘je vois la vie en rose’] a life seen through rose-coloured spectacles.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun] > concerning good life
fool's paradise1462
wealth-fantasy1940
vie en rose1957
1957 O. Nash You can't get there from Here 45 He was wafted into a glamorous vie en rose of amorous ruses.
1974 M. Cecil Heroines in Love vi. 157 So many hopes had tumbled that magazine writers were reluctant to present an unending vie en rose.
vie intérieure n. /ɛ̃terjœr/ (also la vie intérieure) one's inner life, the life of the spirit.
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1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xxvii. 299 Suffragism viewed in retrospect was shoddy embroidery for the vie intérieure of Jenny.
1977 A. Fraser in A. Thwaite My Oxford 175 If caught, alone and inexplicably loitering, it was conventional to snatch up a book of poetry (Donne was rather smart) and indicate sudden world-weariness, a preference for la vie intérieure.
1984 Listener 5 Apr. 23/1 A work in which the vie intérieure of the American and European bourgeoisie is brought out into the daylight.
vie intime n. /ɛ̃tim/ (also la vie intime) the intimate personal life of a person.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > quality of being personal > quality of being intimate or private > intimate personal life
vie intime1891
1891 S. Webb Let. 23 May (1978) I. 272 La vie intime—I want to talk to you about very frankly.
1939 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Jan. 4/4 A novel with real characters, who, however, are not likely on that account to prosecute him for libel, despite his plain-spoken exposure of their vie intime.
1979 L. Lerner Love & Marriage p. x Those social historians who believe that la vie intime has a history which can be studied.
Vie Parisienne n. /parizjɛn/ Parisian life, the name of a popular French magazine; used attributively to denote a characteristic quality of voluptuous appeal.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective]
delicatea1393
deliciousa1393
voluptuous?a1475
pampereda1529
volupteousa1535
wealy1545
lascivious1589
smoothed1600
luxurious1606
luxuriose1727
high life1733
Vie Parisienne1890
decadent1967
1890 R. Kipling Abaft Funnel (1909) 287 I replied that all my French was confined to the Vie Parisienne [sc. the French weekly La Vie Parisienne] and translations of Zola's novels with illustrations.
1936 C. Connolly Rock Pool iii. 57 She..gave him long, soft Vie Parisienne glances.
1983 L. MacDonald Somme viii. 78 The saucy Vie Parisienne, whose cut-out pictures enlivened the decor of almost every dugout on the Western Front.
vie romancée n. /rɔmɑ̃se/ [see romancé adj.2] a fictionalized biography.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography
family piece1709
hikayat1808
heterobiography1825
necrology1830
life and times1866
life and works1907
photo-biography1915
hagiography1924
vie romancée1941
as-told-to1966
photo-essay1977
1941 New Yorker 13 Dec. 34/1 ‘The Beloved Returns’, last year's full-length vie romancée about Goethe, started as a short sketch.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Jan. 39/5 In biographical matters we have vie romancée: ‘if the question flashed through Schiller's mind, he must have dismissed it’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† vien.2
Obsolete. rare.
Envy.
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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > envy
evestOE
envyc1280
envioustya1382
viea1400
grudgingc1420
invyc1440
emulation1561
enviousness1561
envying1587
grudgement1845
begrudgery1874
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 1028 Tho Ypocras wel he fond, Bi craft of the childes hond, That he couthe al his mastrie, And brast negh forth [read for] onde and vie.
a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 435 Ihesu cryst..Þat..vnder pounce pylate Was I-take for vye and hate, And soffrede peyne and passyone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† vien.3
Obsolete.
1.
a. In card-playing: A challenge, venture, or bid; a sum ventured or staked on one's cards. Also in figurative context. (Common c1590–1650).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > bidding or staking
vie1533
revie1591
vieing1591
revying1610
paroli1688
raise1821
bid1880
bidding1880
sweetening1896
parlay1904
re-raise1910
call1968
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xii. f. lxxiiiiv He fareth.., as though we sat to gether playeng at post. For fyrste he casteth my contradiccion as a vye, to wyt whyther I wold geue yt ouer with a face.
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 5v The Conny vppon this knowing his Card is the third or fourth Card,..pawnes his rings if he hath any, his sword, his cloake, or else what he hath about him, to maintaine the vie.
1592 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 273 Not unlike a bad game at Mawe, wherein the first vye being seene, the cards are given before the second.
?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. N3v Both which an end do make Of all Loves Games, saue when the Vies are paid.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. ix. 26 So the cards were handsomely shuffled, the vies and revies were doubled.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xxii. 106 The Vye is what you please to adventure upon the goodness of your own hand.
b. In the phrase to drop vie(s), in figurative use.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)]
envyc1369
to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteriesa1393
strive?c1450
pingle?a1513
marrow1567
corrive1586
contend1589
tilt1589
to drop vie(s)1599
to prove conclusions1601
to try (a) conclusion1601
rival1608
wage1608
campa1614
vie1615
buzzle1638
side1641
rival1656
urge1691
compete1796
rivalize1800
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 19 But Parish for Parish..both for numbers in grosse of honest houshoulders,..and substantiall graue Burgers, Yarmouth shall droppe vie with them to the last Edward groate they are worth.
1636 B. Jonson in Ann. Dubrensia sig. D2 I Cannot bring my Muse to dropp Vies Twixt Cotswold, and the Olimpicke exercise.
2.
a. A challenge to contest or rivalry; a display of rivalry or emulation; a contest or competition. Occasionally const. of. (Very common in 17th cent.)
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition
match1531
goala1555
vie1568
skirmish1576
rencounter1594
drop-vie1598
duellism1602
duello1606
bout1609
duel1613
competition1618
matcha1637
tournament1638
contest1648
rencontre1667
pingle?1719
sprawla1813
go1823
bet1843
bucklea1849
comp1929
cook-off1936
title race1948
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > challenge or challenging > [noun] > specific to a contest
vie1568
banter1787
1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 23v O Gracious Golde, Whose glittring vie: Doth cheere and holde, Eche gazing eie.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 111 Samuel succeedes: Iewes craue a King: a vie, Of People-Sway; States-Ryle: and Monarchie.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 876/1 They..beganne a vie, who should be first in shewing their alteration.
1662 J. Owen Animadv. Fiat Lux xxi, in Wks. (1855) XIV. 169 Let him begin the vie when he pleaseth; if I live and God will, I will try this matter with him before competent judges.
1674 Govt. Tongue vi. 109 The King of Ethiopia in a vie of Wit with the King of Egypt, propos'd it as a Problem to him, to drink up the Sea.
b. In prepositional phrases, as at (a) vie, at the vies, in vie (of), on vie. Cf. a-vie adv.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > in competition or rivalry [phrase]
at (a) vie1591
in vie (of)1591
on vie1591
by strifes1630
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxix. xiv. 327 They wast the fields, and seeme on vye to runne, By which of them most damage may be donne.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxxix. 125 Philip..having heard great Allexander his sonne sing at a feast in vie of the best Musitians.
1626 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. in Wks. (Grosart) IV. 231 The Empresse at the Vies with her Councell, resolues to send ouer her brother into Normandie.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlv. 264 It was worth him above ten thousand Duckats, wherewith the Lords rewarded him as it were in vye of one another in recompence of the good service he did.
1674 Govt. Tongue vi. §12. 127 However as to this particular of defaming, both the sexes seem to be at a vie.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Taudry They..Bedeckt the Shrines and Altars of the Saints, as being at vye with each other upon that occasion.
3. A challenge as to the accuracy of something; an objection or difficulty. rare.
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the mind > language > statement > objection > [noun] > an objection > as to accuracy of something
vie1603
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1197 Then came in Theon also with his vie, adding moreover & saying, that it could not be denied, but that in truth herein there haue bene great changes & mutations.
a1626 J. Horsey Brief Coll. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) App. iii. 340 [He] hindred al the procedings I had begone, standinge uppon termes and vyes, saeing they were not the Quens letters I brought, nether her hand and sealle.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 248 For private men to put in their vye, and..to call in question the decency or expediency of the things so established,..is it self indeed the most indecent and inexpedient thing.
4. attributive, as vie crown, vie stabs.The meaning of three [? read thee] a vies wits in quot. 15891 is not clear.
ΚΠ
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2292/2 The Lord of Tame, with an other Gentleman beyng at Tables, playing, and dropping vye crownes, ye Lady Elizabeth passing by, sayd: she would see the game out.
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B ij Thinkst thou thou hast so good a wit, as none can outwrangle thee? Yes Martin, wee will play three a vies wits.
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B ij Art thou so backt that none dare blade it with thee? Yes Martin, we will drop vie stabbes.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 72 Vie stabbes, good Ecclesiasticall learning in his Apologie; and good Christian charitie in his Homilie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
viev.
/vʌɪ/, U.S. /vaɪ/ a. intransitive. In card-playing: To make a ‘vie’; to hazard a certain sum on the strength of one's hand.The use of the word by Singer Hist. Playing Cards (1816) 245 is merely an echo of invitasi in the Italian original (1526) of the passage.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > bid or stake
vie1565
revie1577
to vie it1591
go1879
bid1908
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iv. 302 He commeth in onely with ioyly bragges, and great vauntes, as if he were plaieinge at poste, and shoulde winne al by vieinge.
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 5 They vie and reuy till some tenne shillings bee on the stake.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. B4v The next game they vied, and laied some fiue pound by on the belt.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits viii. 112 To play well at Primero, and to face and vie,..and by coniectures to know his aduersaries game,..are all workes of the imagination.
?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. P4v Some, beeing Pa-riall,..Vy, and re-uy and weene they all shall winn.
a1640 T. Jackson Exact Coll. Wks. (1654) 3195 Like a wilful Chafeing Gamester, who after once he have begun to Vie upon, or provoke his adversarie, resolves to Revie upon him, and to provoke him further.
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1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. To Rdr. He hath made a second part out of my first; and I onely imitated his second. And shall doe the like in the third, if being elder hand, he shall vye vpon me.
a1644 F. Quarles Judgem. & Mercy (1646) 56 As for thee, thy Cards are good, and having skill enough to play thy hopefull Game, vie boldly, conquer and triumph.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 96 Where he plaied his cards so well, and vied and revied so often, that he had scarce an eye to see withall.
a. transitive. To hazard, stake, or venture (a certain sum, etc.) on a hand of cards. Frequently in figurative context. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > bid or stake
vie1577
bid1880
1577 J. Grange Garden in Golden Aphroditis sig. Pj Then will they vaunt, and graunt, and for affinitie, At cardes they will vye and reuye, each their virginitie.
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 5v At last the Barnackle plies it so, that perhaps he vies more money then the Conny hath in his purse.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xvi. 84 The worlds false-hood, that playeth with Scepters, and vieth Diademes, vsing men like Counters.
1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion i. c. G iv You,..Princes of this lower World, who..vye Kingdomes, and winne Crownes.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 53 I find that you have a very hazardous game in hand, therefore give it up, and do not vie a farthing upon't.
1659 in T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 35 (note) The Commonwealth party and the Protector's or Court party, began to vie stakes, and pecked at one another in their light skirmishes.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > invest
improve1461
occupy1465
to put out1572
vie1598
put1604
stock1683
sink1699
place1700
vest1719
fund1778
embark1832
to put forth1896
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. ii. 18 More then who vies his pence to viewe some trick, Of strange Moroccoes dumbe Arithmeticke.
a. To back (cards) for a certain sum; to declare oneself able to win (a game, etc.). Obsolete.In 1622 at sense 1b in figurative context: for the use of pair cf. quot. ?1605 at sense 3b.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > bid or stake > back (cards or a game)
vie1583
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Eeiii So that hee which hath my misaduentures, and is enthralled with thy presente state, maye vie the paire for sorrowe, whatsoeuer the stake be.
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 5 Ile vie and reuy euery Card at my pleasure, till eyther yours or mine come out.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iv. sig. H2 Sblood heares a tricke vied, and reuied. View more context for this quotation
1655 J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter (1662) 366 The first, or eldest, 'tis possible, sayes, Ile vye the Ruff; the next says, Ile see it.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > bid or stake
vie1565
revie1577
to vie it1591
go1879
bid1908
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 69 S. Let vs plaie at primero... A. What shall we plaie for? S. One shilling stake, and three rest... I vye it, will you hould it? A. Yea Sir, I hold it, and reuie it.
?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. P4v One, vies it, beeing but a Knaue, perchance, Against a King, or Queene, or Paires of both.
1608 G. Chapman Trag. Duke of Byron iv, in Conspiracie Duke of Byron sig. N3 Qu. Passe. Byr. I vy 't.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ix. 235 All this time the Knights play'd it at Dutch Gleek, and had so vied it, and revied it, that they were all Honours in their faces.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 73/1 The eldest hand may pass and com in againe, if any of the gamsters vye it, else the dealer may play it out, or double it.
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1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. F2 One..likened me to a Sea-Crab,..another fellow vyed it and said, I lookte like a Rabbit cut up and half-eaten.
1641 H. L'Estrange Gods Sabbath 31 As for the Protestant writers,..we dare vie it with the Anticiparians, and give them oddes, two for one at least.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 3 He makes grievous complaint elswhere of scurrilous Mercuries, that vie it with his scurrilous Merlins.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 100 To vye him, and see him, and re-vye him in contradictions. This figure now is lost to any man that is not a gamester.
4. † b. Similarly without const. Obsolete.† c. To rival (a thing). Obsolete. rare.
a. To display, advance, practise, etc., in competition or rivalry with another person or thing; to contend or strive with in respect of (something). Obsolete or archaic. (Very common in 17th cent.)
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)] > compete in respect of
viec1570
c1570 Bugbears ii. iv. 39 in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian (1911) 106 I will vye slepes with him that lookes oute of a hood.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. vi. sig. K4 Out, thou Chameleon harlot; now, thine eyes Vie teares with the Hyæna. View more context for this quotation
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. vi. 267 The Queen, vying gold and silver with the King of Spain, had money or credit, when the other had neither.
1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania iii. 165 One eye vied drops with the other.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables (1694) ccclxxx. 401 Nothing else will serve him..but to vye Exellencies with those that took him out of the Dirt.
1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus ii. 126 The Mortal might vie Pleasures and Summum Bonum with the Eternal Being.
1720 D. Manley Power of Love i. 11 So beautiful, that thou may'st vie Advantages with the East and West.
1822 C. Lamb Some Old Actors in Elia 1st Ser. I have seen some..very sensible actresses..who..have seemed to set their wits at the jester, and to vie conceits with him in downright emulation.
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1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxi. 284 An ancient historie of vowes vied and revied betweene the cittizens of Croto.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D7v By and by Thei'le be by the eares, vie stabs, exchange disgraces.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 40 They vyed cruelties, and strove who should overcome each other therein.
1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James , 7 Had you seen how the Lords did vye courtesies to this poor Gentleman,..you could not but have condemned them of much basenesse.
1694 F. Atterbury Power of Charity 15 I think it, by no means, a fit and decent thing to vye Charities, and to erect the Reputation of One upon the Ruines of another.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)]
couple1477
envy1509
contend1577
counterscore1577
paragona1586
corrive1586
emulate1586
emule1595
corrival1601
vie1602
rival1607
vie1607
contesta1616
antagonize1634
cope with1651
to break a lance with1862
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 72 He did it to vie that triple crowne which the Emperour had.
1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iii. i Bating that Palace, there's not a House in Genoa better furnish'd;—and for Picture—I dare almost vie Italy.
5. To match (one thing) with another by way of return, rivalry, or comparison. Now archaic.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)]
evenOE
comparisonc1374
measurea1382
remenec1390
compare1509
confer?1531
to lay togethera1568
lay1577
paragona1586
paragonize1589
set1589
sympathize1600
confront1604
to name on (also in) the same day1609
collate1612
to lay down by1614
sampler1628
to set together1628
matcha1649
run1650
vie1685
to put together1690
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Tiij v Though I enuie thee now, thou shouldest not vye it with malice.
1633 G. Herbert Sacrifice in Temple xxii The Jews..vying malice with my gentlenesse, Pick quarrels with their onely happinesse.
1664 J. Wilson Andronicus Comnenius ii. ii I'll vie his Autumn, with the pride of springs.
1685 Lady Russell Lett. I. xxvii. 73 I will take your advice, and vie my state with others.
1718 Entertainer No. 19. 124 People would never be so vilely corrupted, as to vie Shade with Substance, and prefer Trash..to intrinsick Worth.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold v. i. 129 Leofwin. And someone saw thy willy-nilly nun Vying a tress against our golden fern. Harold. Vying a tear with our cold dews, a sigh With these low-moaning heavens.
a. To increase in number by addition or repetition. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase in amount, number, or frequency
manifoldeOE
multiplya1275
increase1382
plurify?a1425
advance1576
propagate1591
vie1605
mass-produce1923
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 349 Sorrow's..Creeping in corners, where she sits and vies Sighes from her hart, teares from her blubbered eies.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 305 Shee hung about my necke, and kisse on kisse Shee vi'd so fast..That in a twinke she won me to her loue. View more context for this quotation
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman (1641) 24 Lest shee be forced to vie sighes for their sinnes.
1633 G. Herbert Easter in Temple iii Since all musick is but three parts vied And multiplied.
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a1635 T. Randolph Amyntas ii. iv. 37 in Poems (1638) Minds in love, Doe count their daies by minutes, measure howres..And for each vie a teare.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. viii. 33 One dotes: the other loathes: One frisks and sings, and vyes a Flagon more To drench dry Cares.
7.
a. intransitive. To enter into, or carry on, rivalry; to be rivals or competitors; to contend or compete for superiority in some respect. Also const. for or in (the object or matter of rivalry).In Chaucer's Dethe of Blaunche 173 the Tanner MS. (15th cent.) has vie, and Thynne (1532) vye, for envye of the Fairfax MS., which is probably the correct reading.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)]
envyc1369
to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteriesa1393
strive?c1450
pingle?a1513
marrow1567
corrive1586
contend1589
tilt1589
to drop vie(s)1599
to prove conclusions1601
to try (a) conclusion1601
rival1608
wage1608
campa1614
vie1615
buzzle1638
side1641
rival1656
urge1691
compete1796
rivalize1800
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 146 Her teares by his finde their renew'd supplies, Both vie as for a wager, which to winne, The more she wept, the more she forced him.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 209 In Rome Sir William Hamilton..vied much for the said Cardinals Cap.
1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 553 The Commanders profusely vying in the expense & magnificence of Tents.
1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 294 Howe'er Protogenes and I May in our Rival Talents vie.
1736 J. Thomson Britain: 4th Pt. Liberty 291 Not unworthy, she [sc. Genoa] Vy'd for the trident of the narrow seas.
1786 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes for 1785 (new ed.) i. 6 They show'd their gold-lac'd cloaths with pride, In harmless sallies, frequent vied.
1806 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. xi. 54 They all vied in paying me every attention.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. v. 10 As vainly had her maidens vied In skill to deck the princely bride.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) iii. §168 The China seas and the North Pacific may vie in the fury of their gales.
b. Const. with; also †against, †on, †upon.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)]
couple1477
envy1509
contend1577
counterscore1577
paragona1586
corrive1586
emulate1586
emule1595
corrival1601
vie1602
rival1607
vie1607
contesta1616
antagonize1634
cope with1651
to break a lance with1862
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 37 A farme..can no sooner fall in hand, then the Suruey Court shalbe waited on with many Officers, vying & reuying each on other.
1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe v. E 3 Who 'gainst the Sun (though weakned by the morne) Would vie with lookes, needeth an Eagles eye.
a1650 J. Graham in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1711) iii. 108 If..in the Empire of thy Heart, Where I should solely be, Another do pretend a Part, And dares to Vie with me.
1683 Bp. W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Encomium Moriæ (1709) 128 How the tawdry butterflies vie upon one another.
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii. 172 Many other things I omit, for..my design is not to vye with you in impertinence.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. lxxxi One Isaac Newton..might possibly pretend to vye with me for Fame in future times.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. iv. 359 They vie with one another in refinements of torture.
1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. i. 1 In fact they all vied with each other in making themselves agreeable.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Ess. (1897) 531 The wealth of Clive was such as enabled him to vie with the first grandees of England.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xii. 79 Distant Kings would have vied with one another in offering their daughters to such a bridegroom.
c. transferred. Of things.
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1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 173 For know (though my ability be poore) My good-will vie's with any Emperour.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 184 We beheld Lamps at Night striving to vie with the Stars for Number and Lustre.
1717 A. Pope Fable of Dryope in Wks. 276 Fruits that vie In glowing colours with the Tyrian dye.
1748 T. Gray Ode Death Favourite Cat ii, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 268 The coat that with the tortoise vies.
1773 S. Johnson Let. 25 Aug. (1992) II. 56 A library, that for luminousness and elegance may vie at least with the new Edifice at Streatham.
1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 23 The glassy pinnacles of the..Alps,..vying with the brightness of the western horizon.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 617 The wealthiest merchant of London,..whose banquets vied with those of kings.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District 211 The view from the summit will vie with that from any one of the Lake mountains.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute, argue [verb (intransitive)]
flitec900
witherc1000
disputea1225
pleadc1275
strive1320
arguec1374
tolyc1440
toilc1450
wrestlec1450
altercate1530
disagree1534
dissent1538
contend1539
controvert1563
wrangle?1570
contestate?1572
to fend and prove?1578
contest1603
vie1604
controverse1605
discept1639
ergot1653
digladiatea1656
misprove1662
spar1698
argufy1804
spat1809
to cross swords1816
argle1823
to bandy words1828
polemize1828
controversialize1841
caffle1851
polemicize1881
ergotize1883
argy-bargy1887
cag1919
snack1956
1604 G. Babington Comfortable Notes: Levit. xviii. 157 Not multiplying wordes with your husband,..vying and reuying, and will hee, nill hee, still hauing the last word.
1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 533 He that vpon the vying of an inimie will not..reuie vpon him but let it passe.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. §53 462 The other revyed, and denied his Facts; and so too and fro, vying and revying with perpetual Contradiction, little less than giving each other the Lye.
Derivatives
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [adjective] > bidding or staking
vieing1591
vied1600
1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. A4 Iacke Oates..was dealing to himselfe at Vide ruffe for that was the game hee ioyed in.
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. E Gentlemen what shal our game be?.. Faith, let it be Vide-ruffe, and lets make honors.
1610 T. Cocks Diary 14 Dec. (1901) 12 Loste at vyed ruffe ij s vj d.
1612 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels in Wks. (1879) I. 681/1 A difference..made in case of killing and destroying man, upon a fore-thought purpose, between foul and fair, and as it were between single murder and vied murder.
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) III. 245 My Sport shall be vy'd Trump at Christmas.
ˈvieing n. and adj.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [adjective] > bidding or staking
vieing1591
vied1600
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > bidding or staking
vie1533
revie1591
vieing1591
revying1610
paroli1688
raise1821
bid1880
bidding1880
sweetening1896
parlay1904
re-raise1910
call1968
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Embite Vieng at any game, Iteratio.
a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) II. 43 Colonell Jones, governor of Dublin, the other veyinge gamster, played his parte very well hitherto.
1689 Proc. & Tryal Archbishop of Canterbury & Right Rev. Fathers 6 The King's Counsel have answered your Objections, and we must not permit Vying and Re-vying upon one another.
ˈvieingly adv.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adverb]
enviouslya1375
emulously1647
contestingly1648
emulatively1753
vieingly1832
competitively1858
1832 Examiner 691/1 People would have to be careful how they..exaggerate their afflictions, as they are apt vyingly with each other to do.
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