Obs. Also 5 vigilie, vigylye. [ad. L. vigilia: see VIGIL sb.1]
1. = VIGIL sb.1 1.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 416. Vigilies and fastyng dayes, Alle þise late I passe.
1388. Wyclif, John xix. 42. Therfor there thei putten Jhesu, for the vigilie of Jewis feeste.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys, Introd. (Roxb.), 6. In the vigylye of the natyvyte.
c. 1465. Eng. Chron. (Camden), 40. The king sailled forth in to Normandie … and landid at Kitcaux, in the vigily of Assumpcion of our Lady.
1588. in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.), 210. Obserue the fastes commandit … in the euinnes or vigilies of certane solemne daies.
2. = VIGIL sb.1 5.
1665. G. Harvey, Advice agst. Plague, 3. Continual vigilies, or a perpetual restlesness, with anguishing jactitations, or throwing ones self from one part of the bed to the other.
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 25. A confused … expansion of the Optick Nerve, attended with … continual Vigilies.
