Obs. Also 7 vaid-. [f. as prec.] Fading, passing away, fleeting, transitory.
1566. Adlington, Apuleius, Ep. Ded. The vaine and soone vadynge beautie of the worlde.
1577. Grange, Golden Aphrod., etc., R j. My Lady fayre whose shape doth shine And glyster in my vading sighte.
1596. Warner, Alb. Eng., II. lxv. (1612), 279. What els is Forme but vaiding aire?
1615. Brathwait, Strappado (1878), 53. Thy form’s Diuine, no fading, vading flower.
1661. Sir A. Haslerig’s Last Will & Test., 2. What a vading breath, or light blast is this flash of Honour.
