vade

See also: vadè and vadě

English

Etymology

Alteration of fade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

vade (third-person singular simple present vades, present participle vading, simple past and past participle vaded)

1. (obsolete) To fade; to vanish.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Summer leaves all vaded.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:

     They into dust shall vade.

See also

• vade mecum

Anagrams

• Dave, E.D. Va., Veda, dave, deva