Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VORTI-CEL, n.

A little whirl.

VOTA-RESS, a.

A female devoted to any service, worship or state of life. No rosary this votaress needs. Cleaveland.

VOTA-RIST, n. [See Votary.]

One devoted or given up to any person or thing, to any service, worship or pursuit. I am no idle votarist. Shak. [Votary is now used.]

VOTA-RY, a. [from L. notus, from voveo. See Vow.]

Devoted; promised; consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow. Volary resolution is made equipollent to custom. Bacon.

VOTA-RY, n.

One devoted, consecrated or engaged by vow or promise; hence more generally, one devoted, given or addicted to some particular service, worship, study or state of life. Every goddess of antiquity. had her votaries. Every pursuit or study has now its votaries. One is a votary to mathematics, another is a votary to music, and alas, a great portion of the world are votaries of sensual pleasures. It was the coldness of the rotary, not the prayer, which was in fault. Fell.

VOTE, n. [It, and Sp. voto; L. totem, from voveo, to vow. Volum is properly wish or will.]

1. Suffrage; the expression of a wish, desire, will, prefer. mice or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a man to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations and the like. This vote or expression of will may be given by holding up the hand, by rasing and standing up, by the voice, [viva voce,] by ballot, by a ticket or otherwise. All these modes and others are used. Hence,
2. That by which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; a ballot; a ticket, dm.; as, a written vote.
3. Expression of will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous.
4. United voice in public prayer.

VOTE, v.i.

To express or signify the mind, will or preference, in electing men to office, or in passing laws, regulations and the like, or in deciding on any proposition is which one has an interest with others. In elections, men are bound to vote for the best men to fill offices, according to their best knowledge and belief. To vote for a duelist, is to assist in the prostration of justice, and indirectly to encourage the crime. L. Beecher.

VOTE, v.t.

1. To choose by suffrage; to elect by some expression of will; as, the citizens voted their candidate into office with little opposition.
2. To enact or establish by vote or some expression of will. The legislature voted the resolution unanimously.
3. To grant by vote or expression of will. Parliament voted them a hundred thousand pounds. Swift.

VOT-ED, pp.

Expressed by vote or suffrage; determined.

VOT-ER, n.

One who has a legal right to vote or give his suffrage.

VOT-ING, ppr.

Expressing the mind, will or preference in election, of in determining questions proposed; giving s vote or suffrage; electing, deciding, giving or enacting by vote.

VOTIVE, a. [Fr. votif; L. votirus, from votla, vowed.]

Given by vow; devoted; as, votive offerings. Votive medals, are those on which vows of the people for emperors or empresses are expressed. Venus, take my votive glass. Prior.

VO'TIVE-LY, adv.

By vow.

VOUCH, n.

Warrant; attestation. Shak.

VOUCH, v.

To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation. I can not vouch for the truth of the report. He declares he will nat believe her, till the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has so solemnly affirmed. Swift.

VOUCH, v.t. [Norm. toucher; L. two. See Voice.]

1. To call to witness; to obtest. And vouch the silent stars and conscious moon. Dryden.
2. To declare; to affirm; to attest; to warrant; to main- min by affirmations. They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterward to credit it. Atterbury.
3. To warrant; to confirm; to establish proof. The consistency of the discourse—vouches it to be worthy of the great apostle. Locke.
4. In law, to call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title. He vouches the tenant In tail, who vouches over the common vouchee. Blackstone.

VOUCHED, pp.

Called to witness; affirmed or fully attested; called into court to make good a warranty.

VOUCH-EE', n.

In law, the person who is vouched or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery. Blackstone.

VOUCHER, n.

1. One who gives witness or full attestation to any thing. The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for each other's reputation. Spectator.
2. In law, the act of calling in a person to make good his' warranty of title.
3. A. book, paper or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind. The merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts. Notes, bonds, receipts and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.

VOUCHER, or VOUCHOR, n.

In law, the tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher, or double vouchers. Blackstone.

VOUCHING, ppr.

Calling to witness; attesting by affirmation; calling in to maintain warranty of title.

VOUCH-SAFE, v.i.

To condescend; to deign; to yield. Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What pow'r the charms of beauty had of old. Dryden.

VOUCH-SAFE, v.t. [vouch and safe; to vouch or answer for safety.]

1. To permit to be done without danger.
2. To condescend to grant. Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two? Shak. It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of salvation. South.

VOUCH-SAF-ED, pp.

Granted in condescension.

VOUCH-SAFE-MENT, n.

Grant in condescension, as God's greatest communicated vouchsafements. Boyle