vanishv.

Brit.

/ˈvanɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈvænɪʃ/

Forms: α. Middle English vanysche (Middle English vanyȝsche, Middle English vanyssche, vanyche, 1500s vanysch), Middle English–1500s vanysshe (Middle English vanyssh, wanyssh); Middle English vanyshe, Middle English–1500s vanysh; Middle English, 1500s Scottish, vanisch (1500s Scottish wanische, wenisch), Middle English–1600s vanishe (1500s -isshe), 1500s– vanish (1500s vannish, Scottish wanish); Middle English vanesche (Middle English vanessche, vanesshe, vanesce, vaneche). β. Middle English, 1500s Scottish, vanys, vanyss (Middle English vaynyss-, Middle English–1500s Scottish wanys-), Middle English wanyse, 1500s Scottish vanyse; Middle English, 1500s Scottish, vanis(s)-, 1500s Scottish wanis(s)-; Middle English waynes-, Scottish wanes-, 1500s Scottish waneis. γ. Middle English vansch-, Middle English vanshe, wansh-, wanse.

Etymology: Aphetic < Old French evaniss-: see evanish v.

1. intransitive. To disappear from sight, to become invisible, esp. in a rapid and mysterious manner:

a. With away; occasionally with addition of out of or from sight, etc. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear

formeltc893

wendOE

witea1000

aworthc1000

fleec1200

fleetc1200

withdraw1297

vanish1303

voidc1374

unkithea1400

startc1405

disappearc1425

disparishc1425

to fall awayc1443

evanish?a1475

vade1495

sinka1500

vade1530

fly1535

fadea1538

melt?1567

dispear1600

relinquish1601

foist1603

dispersea1616

to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616

dissipate1626

retire1647

evaporate1713

merge1802

illude1820

to foam off1826

dislimn1833

furl1844

to step out1844

evanesce1855

shade1880

wisp1883

to go to the winds1884

walk1898

to do a disappearing act1913

to go west1916

to do (or take) a fade1949

to phase out1970

α.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8195 Wyþ þe croys she gan here blys, þan þey vanysshed aweye as swyþe.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 435 Whanne þis was i-seide he vanysshed awey.

c1400 Rom. Rose 2955 He vanyshide awey alle sodeynly, And I alloone lefte alle soole.

c1450 Mirk's Festial 11 Þen anon þys fend vanechet away wyth an horrybull stenche.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. viii. 85 Therwith merlyn vanysshed awey sodenly.

1545 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. 182 b After these woordes spoken, the Aungels vanished awaye from theyr sight.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at To Disappear To vanish away, to go out of sight.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Death in T. J. Hogg Life Shelley (1858) I. 197 Where the phantoms of Prejudice vanish away.

1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xxiv When I see the last sail..vanishing away against the western sky.

β. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2269 And when þe devel herd hym þus say, Alle skomfit he vanyst oway.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 516 When he had done, sodanlie he vanyssid away.c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 280 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 366 Away son þai vanist but ony hone, of þar sicht wanest away & neuire ware sene to þis day.c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 39 Na man..mycht se him, nor na bit of his body, bot [v] anyst fra thair sicht away.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 109 The strait soundis of the mont Pelory Wanysis away pece and pece.γ. 1375 in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1878) 128/1 Anon þe deuel vanschede awaye.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 177 Mercurius..stiked hym in þe myddel of his body, and vansched awey.14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 581 Euaneo, to vanshe a wey.

b. Without away.

ΚΠ

α.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 293 Riȝt with þat he vanesched.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1001 To Cartage she bad he shuld hym dyght And vanysshed anon out of hys syght.

14.. Tundale's Vis. 519 The angell vaneschyd and he stod stylle.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 765/1 A spyrite wyll vanysshe and come agayne in the twynkelyng of an eye.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 44 Fare ye wel, ô husband, oure yoong babye charely tender. This sayd, shee vannisht.

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. D2^v This..notable Act being performed, you are to vanish presently out of the Quire.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 11 She againe deluded us, after two houres chase as a phantasma vanishing towards Goa.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 261 We had hardly alighted, but our Pistols were taken away, and what was not lock'd up immediately vanish'd.

1757 T. Gray Ode II ii. ii, in Odes 19 They melt, they vanish from my eyes.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. xi. 303 Dark figures, passing without sound, vanished like shadows.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 13 That land, too, now vanishing from my view,..contained all that was most dear to me in life.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xviii. 225 Its curved face..vanished into unknown space.

β. a1400–50 Alexander (Ashm.) 1113 Þan waynest him þis vayne god & voidis fra þe chambre.c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher 267 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 347 With þat criste fra hyme wanyst, & hame he passit til his bewist.1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xvi. 64 Mercuryus, yet spekynge, vaynyssed oute of eneas sight.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1620 in Poems (1981) 64 And with that word he vanist and I woke.γ. 1375 in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1878) 132 Þe addre..vanschede out of here siȝt.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvi. 24 Whanne he hadde seide so how sodeynlich he vanshede.

†c. In perfect tense with be; esp. was vanished = had vanished. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 259 Thus it befell..Sche was vanyssht riht as hir liste, That no wyht bot hirself it wiste.

a1400 Partonope (Univ. Coll. MS.) 826 (2568) With that worde sodenly they be Vanesshid a-way, that trewly he Wote neuer where they be become.

c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1188 So sodenly As they were vanysshyd saw I neuer thyng with ey.

a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 113 in Poems (1981) 135 And quhen scho wanyst was and invisible, Hir madin wepit.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxiii. 68 By that tyme they had gone a lytyll by y^e ryuer syde they loste y^e syght of y^e castell, it was clene vanysshyd a way.

a1628 F. Greville Cælica xli, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 189 And I poore Ixion to my Iuno vowed, With thoughts to clip her, clipt my owne desire: For she was vanisht, I held nothing fast.

1678 D. Manly Hexham's Woorden-boeck (rev. ed.) Het is verstoven,..it is Vanished away as dust.

d. In figurative use.

ΚΠ

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxvj Those spirites by lytle and lytle, vanyshed cleane out of syght [i.e. in popular belief].

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 7 He that reads it as a bare miracle will onely vanish in a wondering humor.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. May 292/2 The Epick Poets not only..immediately shew the Effects of the Inspiration they pray for,..they actually vanish from our View.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 61 And in this manner vanishes King Lackland.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxix. 497 Straining their eyes after their brothers and sisters that have vanished in the dark.

2. To disappear by decaying, coming to an end, or ceasing to exist:

a. With away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > by decay or ceasing to exist

swindOE

vanishc1340

vanisha1375

vanish1590

α.

c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 32 Þe affeccyone of lufe es tendir and lyghtly will vanysche awaye.

a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 88 When he seþe..þe bolnyng for to vanysh away, and þe akyng for to be cesed.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vii. 32 Their auncyent customes..vanysshed awaye as thei neuer had be vsed.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 765/1 And a woman be ones fourty, her beautye wyll vanisshe awaye.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. li. B The heauens shal vanish awaye like smoke.

a1600 in Montgomerie's Poems (S.T.S.) Suppl. Vol. 241 Bott quhat so ever waxis auld, it wenischis away.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Verdwijnen, to Vanish away as smoake.

1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 32 If the mind and soul were awakened, instead of mere physical good attempted, the physical good would result, and the great curse vanish away.

a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 407 You will linger on..after the blood, and the taste, and the sweetness are vanished away.

1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxii. 16 Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!

β. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iii. pr. iv. 74 Her honours vanissen awey and þat on oon.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. ix. 13 The clude about thame swith was brokin, And wanist tyte away amang the air.γ. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 157 But fal[s]nes i-feyned vanscheþ awey in schort tyme.c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 226 His bestys dyeden in yche dyche, His katelle wanshed alle away.

b. Without adverb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist

tirec725

endOE

forfareOE

goc1175

fleec1200

to wend awayc1225

diea1240

to-melta1240

to pass awaya1325

flit1340

perishc1350

vanisha1375

decorre1377

cease1382

dispend1393

failc1400

overshakec1425

surcease1439

adrawc1450

fall1523

decease1538

define1562

fleet1576

expire1595

evanish1597

extinguish1599

extirp1606

disappear1623

evaporatea1631

trans-shift1648

annihilate1656

exolve1657

cancela1667

to pass off1699

to burn out, forth1832

spark1845

to die out1853

to come, go, etc. by the board1859

sputter1964

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > by decay or ceasing to exist

swindOE

vanishc1340

vanisha1375

vanish1590

α.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 639 Hit schal veraly þurth vertue do vanisch ȝour soris!

c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 404 Lo how I vanysshe, flessh and blood and skyn.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Jer. xlix. 7 Is wisdome no more in Teman?..is their wisdome vanished?

1576 A. Fleming tr. in Panoplie Epist. 211 The benefite of the same will utterly decay and vanish.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 124 The fortifying of the Spaniards at Sligo vanished with the rumour.

1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 13 Apr. The cold began to vanish and the north-east wind change.

1740 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 439 The Bill for Raising of Money for the use of the Crown is vanished.

1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxvii. 217 I own my objections have almost wholly vanished.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 44 A little while, thought he, and the smile will vanish from that cheek.

1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 166 Very much, indeed, that I wished to remember has vanished.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. vi. 285 Even those who had previously been most successful..found all their success vanish.

γ. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvi. 8 So myghte happe, Þat..vanshie [should] alle myne vertues and myne faire lockes.c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine i. 487 It wyll wanyse & wast, roten & be brent.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 31 Quhen he gettis ony aduersite or persecutione, thane it [sc. his faith] wanissis and wauers as ane dreyme.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 239 How sune vanisses that plesure, quhilke mortall man callis felicitie.

c. Const. into (air, smoke, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > by decay or ceasing to exist

swindOE

vanishc1340

vanisha1375

vanish1590

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K6^v Weepe heauens, and vanish into liquid teares.

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E2 Plaudities and the Breath of the great Beast, which (like the threatnings of two Cowards) vanish all into aire.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 44 The ill successe of the Queenes affaires (whose great expences and Royall Army they had seene vanish into smoke).

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 Surprise him first,..Then all his Frauds will vanish into Wind.

1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard xxiv If the cock be heard to crow, The charm will vanish into air.

1842 H. W. Longfellow Belfry of Bruges iv Wreaths of snow-white smoke ascending, vanished, ghost-like into air.

d. Mathematics. Of numbers or quantities: To become zero.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > become zero [verb (intransitive)]

vanish1715

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §83. 190 Because the Orbits of Mercury and Venus..do almost vanish in respect of the Orbit of Saturn.

1789 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 175 This series..only differs from it by the last term S o not vanishing, that is, being = 0.

1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 201 The axis must vanish, before the planes P and P′ would reach 180°.

1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 290 The distance between them decreasing without limit, but never vanishing.

1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 42 All the terms will vanish except those in which the multiples of ϕ are the same.

†3. To become worthless or vain. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > become useless [verb (intransitive)]

vanishc1380

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > become less important or unimportant > become worthless

vanishc1380

vilifya1654

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 419 Ȝif salt vanyȝsche awey it is not worþ aftir but to be castun out.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. i. 21 Thei vanyscheden [L. evanuerunt] in her thouȝtis.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiv. 34 If salt schal vanysche [L. evanuerit], in what thing schal it be sauerid?

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 347 Þe apostel seiþ þat suche philosofres vansched away in here þouȝtes.

4. transitive. To cause to disappear; to remove from sight. Now chiefly with reference to conjuring.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > cause to vanish or disappear

formeltc893

consumea1398

vanishc1450

vapoura1475

obliterate1607

snuff1688

efface1843

melt1865

disappear1897

magic1906

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > effect by legerdemain [verb (transitive)] > remove

conjure1637

vanish1886

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 45 And with þat he vanysshid his enchawntement, & þer was oght nott lefte of all þat hym þoght he saw.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K8^v Thus are the villaines..fled for feare, Like Summers vapours, vanisht by the Sun.

1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. A3^v Say thou'st slayne Foure hundred Silkweauers,..vanisht As many Tapsters, Chamberlaines, and Ostlers.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 47 Whose bodies have beene vanished into all the elements.

1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. 93 And were Liturgies..so framed,..Schisms on Opinion were utterly vanished.

1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. i. 82 Whilst she was going to enquire who had sent it, the Child was dexterously vanish'd from the Place.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 419 You might as well think of haranguing a man out of a fever, as go to vanish his scruples arising from that cause by the remonstrances of reason.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Dec. 4/1 Then he vanishes a birdcage and its occupant... Finally, he vanishes his wife.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. v. 264 Lenin conjured government by mass-democracy out of sight, ‘vanished’ it as conjurors say, by his reorganization of the Communist Party.

1949 Amer. Speech 24 41 The magician may speak of disappearing or vanishing a card.

1981 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 6/8 Thurston..could make a girl disappear from a cage suspended in mid-air, or vanish a girl playing a piano (and the piano).

Derivatives

vanished adj.

/ˈvænɪʃt/

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > no longer existent

ceased1556

vanished1594

deada1616

no morea1616

defunct1741

evanished1829

inextant1831

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > vanishing or disappearing > vanished

vanished1594

disappeared1647

fleeted1810

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F2^v He runnes and chides his vanisht loth'd delight.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxx. sig. C3 Then can I..mone th'expence of many a vannisht sight.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xxxix. 80 Oft did he mark the scenes of vanish'd war.

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason i. 14 Strange questions of the race of vanished men.

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason x. 186 And their hearts too, with thoughts of vanished years Were pensive.

1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 108 Specimens of lifeless and shells of defunct and vanished univalves and bivalves.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	vanish
释义	vanishn. Brit. /ˈvanɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈvænɪʃ/ Etymology: < vanish v. 1. Disappearance; vanishment. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > vanishing or disappearing vanishingc1405 vading1570 disparition1597 disappearing1610 disparence1617 disappearance1625 discharge1626 evaporating1630 evanishing1633 vanish1650 disapparition1657 evanescency1664 evanescence1751 mizzle1789 evanitiona1797 evanishment1797 evaporation1824 occultation1825 vanishment1831 furling1836 disappearing trick1870 disappearing act1884 fade-away1911 fade-out1924 1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 58 This Vanish, or ascent of the inward Ethereall Principles doth not presently follow their separation. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It iii. 33 He..left for San Francisco at a speed which can only be described as a flash and a vanish. 2. spec. A gradual cessation of a sound; a slight sound in which another ends; a glide. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [noun] vanish1833 glide1835 voice glide1844 downglide1876 off-glide1877 vowel-glide1878 glide-consonant1888 glide-vowel1888 on-glide1888 attack1902 glide-sound1911 svarita1916 upglide1930 inglide1956 1833 J. Rush Philos. Human Voice (ed. 2) 319 The Drift of the downward Vanish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). vanishv. Brit. /ˈvanɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈvænɪʃ/ Forms: α. Middle English vanysche (Middle English vanyȝsche, Middle English vanyssche, vanyche, 1500s vanysch), Middle English–1500s vanysshe (Middle English vanyssh, wanyssh); Middle English vanyshe, Middle English–1500s vanysh; Middle English, 1500s Scottish, vanisch (1500s Scottish wanische, wenisch), Middle English–1600s vanishe (1500s -isshe), 1500s– vanish (1500s vannish, Scottish wanish); Middle English vanesche (Middle English vanessche, vanesshe, vanesce, vaneche). β. Middle English, 1500s Scottish, vanys, vanyss (Middle English vaynyss-, Middle English–1500s Scottish wanys-), Middle English wanyse, 1500s Scottish vanyse; Middle English, 1500s Scottish, vanis(s)-, 1500s Scottish wanis(s)-; Middle English waynes-, Scottish wanes-, 1500s Scottish waneis. γ. Middle English vansch-, Middle English vanshe, wansh-, wanse. Etymology: Aphetic < Old French evaniss-: see evanish v. 1. intransitive. To disappear from sight, to become invisible, esp. in a rapid and mysterious manner: a. With away; occasionally with addition of out of or from sight, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear formeltc893 wendOE witea1000 aworthc1000 fleec1200 fleetc1200 withdraw1297 vanish1303 voidc1374 unkithea1400 startc1405 disappearc1425 disparishc1425 to fall awayc1443 evanish?a1475 vade1495 sinka1500 vade1530 fly1535 fadea1538 melt?1567 dispear1600 relinquish1601 foist1603 dispersea1616 to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616 dissipate1626 retire1647 evaporate1713 merge1802 illude1820 to foam off1826 dislimn1833 furl1844 to step out1844 evanesce1855 shade1880 wisp1883 to go to the winds1884 walk1898 to do a disappearing act1913 to go west1916 to do (or take) a fade1949 to phase out1970 α. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8195 Wyþ þe croys she gan here blys, þan þey vanysshed aweye as swyþe. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 435 Whanne þis was i-seide he vanysshed awey. c1400 Rom. Rose 2955 He vanyshide awey alle sodeynly, And I alloone lefte alle soole. c1450 Mirk's Festial 11 Þen anon þys fend vanechet away wyth an horrybull stenche. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. viii. 85 Therwith merlyn vanysshed awey sodenly. 1545 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. 182 b After these woordes spoken, the Aungels vanished awaye from theyr sight. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at To Disappear To vanish away, to go out of sight. a1822 P. B. Shelley Death in T. J. Hogg Life Shelley (1858) I. 197 Where the phantoms of Prejudice vanish away. 1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xxiv When I see the last sail..vanishing away against the western sky. β. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2269 And when þe devel herd hym þus say, Alle skomfit he vanyst oway.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 516 When he had done, sodanlie he vanyssid away.c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 280 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 366 Away son þai vanist but ony hone, of þar sicht wanest away & neuire ware sene to þis day.c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 39 Na man..mycht se him, nor na bit of his body, bot [v] anyst fra thair sicht away.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 109 The strait soundis of the mont Pelory Wanysis away pece and pece.γ. 1375 in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1878) 128/1 Anon þe deuel vanschede awaye.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 177 Mercurius..stiked hym in þe myddel of his body, and vansched awey.14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 581 Euaneo, to vanshe a wey. b. Without away. ΚΠ α. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 293 Riȝt with þat he vanesched. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1001 To Cartage she bad he shuld hym dyght And vanysshed anon out of hys syght. 14.. Tundale's Vis. 519 The angell vaneschyd and he stod stylle. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 765/1 A spyrite wyll vanysshe and come agayne in the twynkelyng of an eye. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 44 Fare ye wel, ô husband, oure yoong babye charely tender. This sayd, shee vannisht. 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. D2^v This..notable Act being performed, you are to vanish presently out of the Quire. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 11 She againe deluded us, after two houres chase as a phantasma vanishing towards Goa. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 261 We had hardly alighted, but our Pistols were taken away, and what was not lock'd up immediately vanish'd. 1757 T. Gray Ode II ii. ii, in Odes 19 They melt, they vanish from my eyes. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. xi. 303 Dark figures, passing without sound, vanished like shadows. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 13 That land, too, now vanishing from my view,..contained all that was most dear to me in life. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xviii. 225 Its curved face..vanished into unknown space. β. a1400–50 Alexander (Ashm.) 1113 Þan waynest him þis vayne god & voidis fra þe chambre.c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher 267 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 347 With þat criste fra hyme wanyst, & hame he passit til his bewist.1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xvi. 64 Mercuryus, yet spekynge, vaynyssed oute of eneas sight.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1620 in Poems (1981) 64 And with that word he vanist and I woke.γ. 1375 in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1878) 132 Þe addre..vanschede out of here siȝt.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvi. 24 Whanne he hadde seide so how sodeynlich he vanshede. †c. In perfect tense with be; esp. was vanished = had vanished. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 259 Thus it befell..Sche was vanyssht riht as hir liste, That no wyht bot hirself it wiste. a1400 Partonope (Univ. Coll. MS.) 826 (2568) With that worde sodenly they be Vanesshid a-way, that trewly he Wote neuer where they be become. c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1188 So sodenly As they were vanysshyd saw I neuer thyng with ey. a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 113 in Poems (1981) 135 And quhen scho wanyst was and invisible, Hir madin wepit. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxiii. 68 By that tyme they had gone a lytyll by y^e ryuer syde they loste y^e syght of y^e castell, it was clene vanysshyd a way. a1628 F. Greville Cælica xli, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 189 And I poore Ixion to my Iuno vowed, With thoughts to clip her, clipt my owne desire: For she was vanisht, I held nothing fast. 1678 D. Manly Hexham's Woorden-boeck (rev. ed.) Het is verstoven,..it is Vanished away as dust. d. In figurative use. ΚΠ 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxvj Those spirites by lytle and lytle, vanyshed cleane out of syght [i.e. in popular belief]. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 7 He that reads it as a bare miracle will onely vanish in a wondering humor. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. May 292/2 The Epick Poets not only..immediately shew the Effects of the Inspiration they pray for,..they actually vanish from our View. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 61 And in this manner vanishes King Lackland. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxix. 497 Straining their eyes after their brothers and sisters that have vanished in the dark. 2. To disappear by decaying, coming to an end, or ceasing to exist: a. With away. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > by decay or ceasing to exist swindOE vanishc1340 vanisha1375 vanish1590 α. c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 32 Þe affeccyone of lufe es tendir and lyghtly will vanysche awaye. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 88 When he seþe..þe bolnyng for to vanysh away, and þe akyng for to be cesed. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vii. 32 Their auncyent customes..vanysshed awaye as thei neuer had be vsed. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 765/1 And a woman be ones fourty, her beautye wyll vanisshe awaye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. li. B The heauens shal vanish awaye like smoke. a1600 in Montgomerie's Poems (S.T.S.) Suppl. Vol. 241 Bott quhat so ever waxis auld, it wenischis away. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Verdwijnen, to Vanish away as smoake. 1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 32 If the mind and soul were awakened, instead of mere physical good attempted, the physical good would result, and the great curse vanish away. a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 407 You will linger on..after the blood, and the taste, and the sweetness are vanished away. 1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám lxxii. 16 Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! β. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iii. pr. iv. 74 Her honours vanissen awey and þat on oon.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. ix. 13 The clude about thame swith was brokin, And wanist tyte away amang the air.γ. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 157 But fal[s]nes i-feyned vanscheþ awey in schort tyme.c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 226 His bestys dyeden in yche dyche, His katelle wanshed alle away. b. Without adverb. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist tirec725 endOE forfareOE goc1175 fleec1200 to wend awayc1225 diea1240 to-melta1240 to pass awaya1325 flit1340 perishc1350 vanisha1375 decorre1377 cease1382 dispend1393 failc1400 overshakec1425 surcease1439 adrawc1450 fall1523 decease1538 define1562 fleet1576 expire1595 evanish1597 extinguish1599 extirp1606 disappear1623 evaporatea1631 trans-shift1648 annihilate1656 exolve1657 cancela1667 to pass off1699 to burn out, forth1832 spark1845 to die out1853 to come, go, etc. by the board1859 sputter1964 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > by decay or ceasing to exist swindOE vanishc1340 vanisha1375 vanish1590 α. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 639 Hit schal veraly þurth vertue do vanisch ȝour soris! c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 404 Lo how I vanysshe, flessh and blood and skyn. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Jer. xlix. 7 Is wisdome no more in Teman?..is their wisdome vanished? 1576 A. Fleming tr. in Panoplie Epist. 211 The benefite of the same will utterly decay and vanish. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 124 The fortifying of the Spaniards at Sligo vanished with the rumour. 1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 13 Apr. The cold began to vanish and the north-east wind change. 1740 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 439 The Bill for Raising of Money for the use of the Crown is vanished. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxvii. 217 I own my objections have almost wholly vanished. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 44 A little while, thought he, and the smile will vanish from that cheek. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 166 Very much, indeed, that I wished to remember has vanished. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. vi. 285 Even those who had previously been most successful..found all their success vanish. γ. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvi. 8 So myghte happe, Þat..vanshie [should] alle myne vertues and myne faire lockes.c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine i. 487 It wyll wanyse & wast, roten & be brent.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 31 Quhen he gettis ony aduersite or persecutione, thane it [sc. his faith] wanissis and wauers as ane dreyme.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 239 How sune vanisses that plesure, quhilke mortall man callis felicitie. c. Const. into (air, smoke, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > by decay or ceasing to exist swindOE vanishc1340 vanisha1375 vanish1590 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K6^v Weepe heauens, and vanish into liquid teares. 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E2 Plaudities and the Breath of the great Beast, which (like the threatnings of two Cowards) vanish all into aire. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 44 The ill successe of the Queenes affaires (whose great expences and Royall Army they had seene vanish into smoke). 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 Surprise him first,..Then all his Frauds will vanish into Wind. View more context for this quotation 1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard xxiv If the cock be heard to crow, The charm will vanish into air. 1842 H. W. Longfellow Belfry of Bruges iv Wreaths of snow-white smoke ascending, vanished, ghost-like into air. d. Mathematics. Of numbers or quantities: To become zero. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > become zero [verb (intransitive)] vanish1715 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §83. 190 Because the Orbits of Mercury and Venus..do almost vanish in respect of the Orbit of Saturn. 1789 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 175 This series..only differs from it by the last term S o not vanishing, that is, being = 0. 1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 201 The axis must vanish, before the planes P and P′ would reach 180°. 1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 290 The distance between them decreasing without limit, but never vanishing. 1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 42 All the terms will vanish except those in which the multiples of ϕ are the same. †3. To become worthless or vain. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > become useless [verb (intransitive)] vanishc1380 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > become less important or unimportant > become worthless vanishc1380 vilifya1654 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 419 Ȝif salt vanyȝsche awey it is not worþ aftir but to be castun out. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. i. 21 Thei vanyscheden [L. evanuerunt] in her thouȝtis. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiv. 34 If salt schal vanysche [L. evanuerit], in what thing schal it be sauerid? a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 347 Þe apostel seiþ þat suche philosofres vansched away in here þouȝtes. 4. transitive. To cause to disappear; to remove from sight. Now chiefly with reference to conjuring. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > cause to vanish or disappear formeltc893 consumea1398 vanishc1450 vapoura1475 obliterate1607 snuff1688 efface1843 melt1865 disappear1897 magic1906 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > effect by legerdemain [verb (transitive)] > remove conjure1637 vanish1886 c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 45 And with þat he vanysshid his enchawntement, & þer was oght nott lefte of all þat hym þoght he saw. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K8^v Thus are the villaines..fled for feare, Like Summers vapours, vanisht by the Sun. 1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. A3^v Say thou'st slayne Foure hundred Silkweauers,..vanisht As many Tapsters, Chamberlaines, and Ostlers. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 47 Whose bodies have beene vanished into all the elements. 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. 93 And were Liturgies..so framed,..Schisms on Opinion were utterly vanished. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. i. 82 Whilst she was going to enquire who had sent it, the Child was dexterously vanish'd from the Place. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 419 You might as well think of haranguing a man out of a fever, as go to vanish his scruples arising from that cause by the remonstrances of reason. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Dec. 4/1 Then he vanishes a birdcage and its occupant... Finally, he vanishes his wife. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. v. 264 Lenin conjured government by mass-democracy out of sight, ‘vanished’ it as conjurors say, by his reorganization of the Communist Party. 1949 Amer. Speech 24 41 The magician may speak of disappearing or vanishing a card. 1981 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 6/8 Thurston..could make a girl disappear from a cage suspended in mid-air, or vanish a girl playing a piano (and the piano). Derivatives vanished adj. /ˈvænɪʃt/ ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > no longer existent ceased1556 vanished1594 deada1616 no morea1616 defunct1741 evanished1829 inextant1831 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > vanishing or disappearing > vanished vanished1594 disappeared1647 fleeted1810 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F2^v He runnes and chides his vanisht loth'd delight. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxx. sig. C3 Then can I..mone th'expence of many a vannisht sight. View more context for this quotation 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xxxix. 80 Oft did he mark the scenes of vanish'd war. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason i. 14 Strange questions of the race of vanished men. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason x. 186 And their hearts too, with thoughts of vanished years Were pensive. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 108 Specimens of lifeless and shells of defunct and vanished univalves and bivalves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1650v.1303
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