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  1. To become pale or weak, as a color; hence, to pass away; vanish; depart. Color evanidus, fugax. … A vading: a decaying, or a dead colour. Nomenclator (1585). (Nares.) Life doth vade, and young men must be old. Greene, Palmer's Verses. I know how soon their love vadeth. Middleton, Family of Love, i. 1.
  2. To fade; wither. Mine is the heart which vades away as doth the flower or grass. Peele, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes. Fair flower, untimely plucked, soon vaded. Shak., Passionate Pilgrim, l. 131.

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  • You know what this means: someone needs a Glitch Suite GS4. vade, can you get on this? —  Create Digital Motion
  • Indeed there is not a chapter from which any reader may not gain something.... It is impossible even to glance at a tithe of the useful information and advice contained in this volume, which will be certain to be the landlord and the agent's vade-mecum North British Agriculturist Mr Brown is plain and practical in his remarks; he is evidently a cautious and sensible land agent, and his valuable work testifies to his having made good use of his opportunities, his observation, and his experience Economist We can heartily commend this book for the instruction of both landowners and estate agents. —  Cattle and Cattle-breeders
  • He never came on deck without the gunner's vade-mecum in his pocket, with his hand always upon it to refer to it in a moment But Mr Tallboys had, as we observed before, a great idea of the importance of a gunner, and, among other qualifications, he considered it absolutely necessary that he should be a navigator. —  Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • So true is it that statesmen have no concern with pater nosters, the Sermon on the Mount, or the vade mecum of the moralist. —  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
  • His Essays are as good as a library: they make an incomparable manual and vade-mecum for a busy uneducated man, who has curiosity and enlightenment enough to wish to know a little about the great lives and great thoughts, the shining words and many-coloured complexities of action, that have marked the journey of man through the ages. —  Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay
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  1. Another form of fade (as vat of fat): see fade.
 

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