Obs. [var. of FADE v.1, chiefly used in fig. senses (very common c. 1530–1630) and app. to some extent associated with L. vādĕre to go: see next, to which some of the quotations placed under 3–3 c may really belong.
This association may be the real explanation of the form, but see the note to FADE a.2]
1. intr. Of color: = FADE v.1 4.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., Pref. in Ashm. (1652), 127. Colour whych wyll not vade.
c. 1532. Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 956. To vade, ternir.
a. 1586. Sidney, Astr. & Stella (1622), 578. How doth the colour vade of those vermillion dies.
1594. Plat, Jewell-ho., III. 45. As soone as the beautiful hew of the leaues begin to vade.
1613. Answ. Uncasing Machiav., E iv b. Whose colours never vade.
1647. C. Harvey, Schola Cordis, xvii. 4. The staines of sin I see Are vaded all, or di’d in graine.
2. Of flowers, etc.: = FADE v.1 1.
1492. [see 3 b].
c. 1532. Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 894. Rose that can nat vade, rose inmarcessible.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 1. Small grayish leaves … the whiche do perish and vade in winter.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., I. ii. 20. One flourishing branch of his most Royall roote … Is hackt downe, and his summer leafes all vaded.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 22. Do not the flowers vade, and grasse die for her departure?
3. To pass away, disappear, vanish; to decay or perish; = FADE v.1 6.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVI. xxxvi. 564. Aege that passyth & vadyth chaungyth tymes of thynges.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. IV. (1550), 4. When he departed, the only shelde, defence and comfort of the common people was vadid and gone.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 19. Forme is most frayle,… it vadth as grasse doth growe.
1607. Middleton, Fam. Love, I. i. I know how soon their love vadeth.
1641. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlew., 324. Where … beauty never fadeth, love never faileth, health never vadeth.
a. 1678. Marvell, Poems, Clorinda & Damon (1681), 12. Grass withers; and the Flow’rs too fade. Seize the short Ioyes then, ere they vade.
b. Const. from, into, to.
1492. Ryman, Poems, lxxxiv. 2, in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., LXXXIX. 253. As medowe floures … Vadeth to erthe … Likewise richesse and grete honoures Shall vade fro euery creature.
c. 1537. Thersites, D ij. The cowherd of Comertowne, with his croked spade, Cause frome the the wormes soone to vade.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 40. How euer gay their blossome or their blade Doe flourish now, they into dust shall vade.
1663. Cane, Ep. to Author of Animad. Fiat Lux, 96. All your talk in this your eighteenth chapter vades into nothing.
c. With away.
1530. Proper Dyaloge, in Roy’s Rede me, etc. (Arb.), 133. Affermynge that oure loue shuld a-way vade Without any memory of them at all.
1587. M. Grove, Pelops & Hipp. (1873), 38. The time thus doth consume & wear, the night doth vade away.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1761. The bankes of sand doe fleet and vade away out of the river.
