vanish (vanish), ish)

i. [ME. vani hen, van is chen, vanes chen, vanschen, The heavens shall vanish away like smoke. Of the vanished dream No image was there left to him. Isa. li. 6. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 96. 2. To pa out of view; pa beyond the limit of vision; disappear gradually; fade away. Now when she [the queen] could no longer detain the Empire from her son, not enduring to survive her glory, she vanisht out of sight. Sandys , Travailes, p. 118. 3. To pa away; be annihilated or lost; be no more. Pick'd from the worm-holes of long- vanish'd days. Shak ., Hen. V., ii. 4. 86. Before At rides' rage so sinks the foe, Whole squadrons vanish , and proud heads lie low. Pope , Iliad, xi. 206, vanity (van'i-ti), n.; pl. vanities (-tiz). [Early mod. E. vanitye, vanitie; nità, L. vanita (t-) s, emptine , vanity, emptine ; folly; want of substance to satisfy desire; hollowne . Nothing, God wot, but vanitee in sweven is. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 102. Vanity of vanities , saith the preacher, all is vanity . Eccles. 1. 2. All was vanity , feeding the wind, and folly. Sir T. Browne, Ürn-burial, v. (b) The desire of indiscriminate admiration; inflation of overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or mind slight ground; empty pride, inspired by an adornments, and making its po e or anxious for the notice and applause of others. To be fair, And nothing virtuous, only fits the eye Of gaudy youth and swelling vanity . Fletcher, Faithful Shepherde , i. 3. They were faine to let him goe on till all men saw his vanity . Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 171. Vanity is the cordial drop which makes the bitter cup of life go down. J. Adams , in Josiah Quincy's Figures of the Past, p. 78. (c) Ostentation; ambitious display; pompous vaunting; pride; vainglory. They... through their owne vanitye ... doe thereupon build and enlarge many forged his to ryes of theyr owne antiquitye. Spenser, State of Ireland. When the superior acts out of a principle of vanity, the dependant will be sure to allow it him. Steele, Tatler, No. 202. 2. That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, or unsubstantial. (a) Empty pleasure; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment; petty object of pride. The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. Book of Common Prayer , Catechism. They are gilded and adulterate vanities . Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , v. 3. Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead. Pope , R. of the L., i. 52. (b) Fruitle desire or endeavor; effort which produces no result. It is a vanity to waste our days in the blind pursuit of knowledge. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, ii. 8. There, far in the apse, is seen the sad Madonna standing in her folded robe, lifting her hands in vanity of ble ing. Ruskin, Stones of Venice, II. iii. § 39. (c) An empty or vain conceit; a trifle. I must Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple Some vanity of mine art. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. 41, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-1698.png:[blocks in formation] 3t. One of the personified vices in the old moralities and puppet-shows. You... take vanity the puppet's part. Shak ., Lear, ii. 2. 39. Vanity Fair, the world as a scene of vanity or of osten quish +-ment.] The act of vanquishing, or the state of being vanquished. Bp. Hall, Balm of Gilead. vansire (van's ir), n . [Also vondsira ; = F. van- sire ; from a native name.] A large, stout ich- neum on of southern and western Africa, Her- pestes galera , the marsh ichneumon. van tatious the fair folly; described hence, in the Bunyan's world of "Pilgrim's fashion so Progre " called from " as Van Swieten's solution. See solution . established by Beelzebub, A polly on, and Legion for the vantt, v. An old spelling of vaunt1 . sale of all sorts of vanities. The name was adopted by vant-. A shortened form of avant- . Thackeray as the title of a satirical novel. = Syn. 1. (6) Egotism , Vanity, etc. See egotism . vanmuret, n. Same as vantmure .