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▪ I. † virge Obs.
[var. of verge n.1, after L. virga.]
1. = verge n.1 10.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 20 §7 Within the virge lymited and accustumed to his Graces Courte. 1596Bacon Max. & Use Com. Law ii. (1635) 5 Controversies arising within the Virge. Which is within xii. miles of the chiefest Tunnell of the Court. 1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. Table, The Kings granting Protections under the Great Seal of England to such as are his Servants..when especially imployed by him..out of his Palace or Virge thereof.
b. transf. = verge n.1 12.
a1639T. Carew Poems, To Ben Jonson 48 Thou art not of their ranke, the quarrell lyes Within thine owne virge. 1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 385 Within the Virge and compass of loyalty and modesty.
2. A rod or wand; esp. a rod of office.
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. lvi, A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal'd In goulden diadems,..And of their golden virges none disceptred wear. a1646M. Prideaux Introd. Hist. (1648) 102 Hadrian the second..kept a greate stirre to bring the Bulgarians under his virge. a1668Davenant Poems (1672) 230 Therefore my Robe, that in his Altar lay, My Virge, my Wreath, I took; and thus did pray. 1727Swift Horace i. Ep. vii. 97 Suppose him now a dean complete.., The silver virge, with decent pride, Stuck underneath his cushion side.
b. = verge n.1 4 b.
1635Calthrope Relat. betw. Lord & Copy-holder 51 Although some bee called Coppy-holders, some Customary, some Tenants by the Virg [sic],..yet doe they all agree in substance and kinde of Tenure.
3. = verge n.1 9 b.
1688[see virgate n. 1]. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Yard-Land, In the Statute of Wards, An. 28, E. 1, it is call'd a Virge of Land.
4. = verge n.1 1 a.
1608Topsell Serpents 252 They suffer also vomiting with a spasme or crampe, and inflamation of the virge. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. iv. v. 177 Many of these Apes fell by our hands;..opening them I found..their seminary Vessels turgid, their Virge White and Nervous.
▪ II. † virge
obs. variant of verge v.2
1693W. Freke Sel. Ess. v. 38 True Vertue is a Streight line, that neither virges for Laziness nor Glory. |