Also 6 vog(e, Sc. wogue, 7 voag, vouge. [a. F. vogue rowing, course, success, f. voguer, ad. It. vogare to row. So It. and Pg. voga, Sp. boga.]
I. † 1. The vogue, the principal or foremost place in popular repute or estimation; the most pronounced success or general acceptance; the greatest currency or prevalence. Chiefly in phrases to have, bear, carry, get (etc.) the vogue. Now Obs.
(a) 1571. Satir. Poems Reform., xxvii. 123. Quha hes þe wogue [printed wogne], him all þe warld dois wew.
c. 1590. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 12/24. As mychtie Monarck rair,… He onlie hes the vog armipotent.
1643. Howell, Twelve Treat. (1661), 290. These are the men that now have the vogue, and … seem to have quite swallowed up both the King’s Prerogatives, and those of the Lords.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 17. Democritus having had for many ages almost the general cry and vogue for Atoms.
1731. Medley, Kolben’s Cape G. Hope, I. 65. They have the vogue above all the other Hottentot nations for strength and dexterity in throwing the Hassagaye.
1738. Observ. Brit. Wool, 9. English Woollen Manufactures have had the Vogue and Name for many Years past, all over Europe.
1788. Franklin, Autobiog., Wks. 1840, I. 210. He had published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue.
(b) c. 1610. Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (1735), 380. Such scornful and such partial Persons, as have oftest possessed your Ear and carried the Vogue in your Court.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 47. Though Mustard-seed do carry the Vogue amongst the People.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 123. It bears the Vogue for altering the Blood.
1722. W. Hamilton, Wallace, 152. McFadzean that most bloody Rogue, Who for his Villany did bear the Vogue.
1741. Betterton, Eng. Stage, i. 9. Notwithstanding the Industry of the Patentee and Managers, it seems the King’s House then carried the Vogue of the Town.
(c) 1685. Choice Coll. Songs, ‘Fill up the Bowl,’ v. While you can find one Factious Rogue, To sway the Poll, and get the Vogue.
1710. Swift, Tatler, No. 230, ¶ 7. Some of which [words] are now struggling for the Vogue, and others are in possession of it.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., I. ii. I’ll … win the vogue at market, tron, or fair, For halesome, clean, cheap and sufficient ware.
1732. Swift, Beast’s Confession, Pref. London is seldom without a dozen of their own educating, who engross the vogue for half a winter together.
2. Without article: Popularity; general acceptance or currency; success in popular esteem.
1604. Wilcocks, in Golding’s De Mornay, Ded. Pr. Wales (1617), A 2 b. This booke being countenanced, vnder your Patronage and defence, shall haue more vogue, and better acceptance with all sorts.
1653. A. Wilson, Jas. I., 121. So long as you permit the Schisms of Arminius to have such vogue … in the principal Towns of Holland.
1694. W. Freke, Sel. Ess., 2. An Author not Licensed by Common Vogue, as well as Authority, looks like one with the Plague-sore upon him.
1704. Swift, T. Tub, vii. Wks. 1768, I. 116. Having observed how little invention bears any vogue, besides what is derived into these channels.
1716. Waterland, Serm. bef. Cambridge Univ., 21. A good Man has no Security … but by examining carefully what is true, right, and just in it self, separate from common Vogue, or popular Opinion.
1752. Hume, Ess. & Treat. (1777), I. 248. To convince you that fashion, vogue,… and law, were the chief foundation of all moral determinations.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Note-bks., I. 154. Mr. — … seems to have a good deal of vogue as a sculptor.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, I. 351. Astrologers, magians, soothsayers,… acquired such vogue, as to attract the indignant notice of both satirists and historians.
b. In phr. in (or out of) vogue. Also with adjs. (usually intensive), as in full vogue, etc.
(a) 1643. Chas. I., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. III. 297. Though Mars be now most in voag, yet Hymen may bee some tymes remembred.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., lix. 242. The Idol which is most in vogue amongst them, and most frequented.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. iv. (1677), 165. The same Words and Phrases that were not used,… in former Ages, become in Fashion, Reputation and Vogue in another Age.
1726. Swift, Gulliver, IV. xii. It is highly probable, that such travellers … may, by detecting my errors,… justle me out of vogue and stand in my place. Ibid. (1738), Pol. Conversat., Introd. 42. My Book would be out of Vogue with the first Change of Fashion.
1747. Butler, Serm., Wks. 1874, II. 297. Corruptions of the grossest sort have been in vogue, for many generations.
1787. Bentham, Def. Usury, x. 98. A method much in vogue was, to let the Jews get the money … and then squeeze it out of them as it was wanted.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 274. The writers whom you suppose in vogue,… have long since had their day.
1842. Newman, Par. Serm. (ed. 2), V. ix. 141. The influence of some system of religion which is in vogue.
1879. Proctor, Pleas. Ways Sc., ii. 30. The system of lunar weather wisdom in vogue to this day among seamen.
(b.) 1687. A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., I. 101. Letters are in no vogue in that Country, and profound Ignorance reigns among them.
1692. Sprat, Wicked Contrivance, II. 15. The Popish-Plot having been just before in full vogue there, as well as here.
1741. Betterton, Eng. Stage, i. 8. During this Interval, many Plays were brought upon the Stage written in Heroic Rhime: and … in 1668 … it became still in greater Vogue.
1798. Anti-Jacobin, No. 35. The following popular song is said to be in great vogue.
1838. G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., IV. 83. As the system of conversion [to the Roman Catholic faith] was at that time in high vogue.
c. In phr. to bring or put, to come or start, etc., into (or in) vogue.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, 29 Nov. 1694. It had been brought into vogue by Mr. Tudor an apothecary.
1702. Addison, Dial. Medals, Misc. Wks. 1736, III. 15. To bring the study of Medals in vogue.
1750. Chesterf., Lett., ccxviii. (1792), II. 341. Without which they … would be vilified by those very gallantries which put them in vogue.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 176. What would the mathematician give to know the newest fashions as they start into vogue, or be let into all the scandal and tittle-tattle of the town?
1844. Thirlwall, Greece, VIII. lxii. 148. Austere doctrines … seem to have come into vogue in the higher circles.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, I. 13. Travelling in a carriage with post-horses was brought into vogue by the Bourbons.
1876. Gladstone, Homeric Synchr., 134. It had still more recently come into vogue as the national name.
d. In phr. to give vogue (to something).
c. 1688. [? Burnet], Enquiry into Reasons Abrog. Test, 7/1. The main things that gave it Popular Vogue and Reputation with his Party.
1770. Gray, Lett., Poems (1775), 385. That childish nation, the French, have given him vogue and fashion.
1799. in Med. Jrnl. (1800), III. 14. Those artifices that have so often given Medical Men vogue in the great world.
1824. Byron, Juan, XV. xlviii. Although her birth and wealth had given her vogue, Beyond the charmers we have already cited.
1837. Hallam, Hist. Literature, I. I. vii. § 27. 402. It contains several feigned letters of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, which probably in a credulous age passed for genuine, and gave vogue to the book.
1877. E. R. Conder, Basis Faith, ii. 69. To give vogue to a phrase by which he hopes to make the idea … ridiculous.
† e. Of vogue, holding a prominent place in popular estimation or notice; fashionable.
1678. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, IV. III. iv. 137. Is it not strange then, that Reformed Divines, yea some of great vogue for Pietie and Learning should espouse an error so grosse.
1703. Steele, Tender Husb., I. i. The Great Beauties, and Short-liv’d People of Vogue, were always her Discourse and Imitation. Ibid. (1709), Tatler, No. 14, ¶ 5. There are Two who frequent this Place, whom she takes for Men of Vogue.
3. With a: A prominent place in popular favour or fashion; a course or period of success or distinction in this connection.
1673. Lady’s Call., I. v. § 25. That impudence of profaneness which has given it such a vogue in the world.
1704. Swift, Mech. Operat. Spir., Misc. (1711), 274. I do not find any [Title] which holds so general a Vogue as that of A Letter to a Friend.
1752. Hume, Ess. & Treat. (1777), I. 248. Authority … may give a temporary vogue to a bad poet.
1753. Hogarth, Anal. Beauty, viii. 45. Paltry imitations of Chinese buildings have a kind of vogue, chiefly on account of their novelty.
1818. Sporting Mag., III. 118. The carriages called caterpillars acquired a temporary vogue.
1832. Lewis, Use & Ab. Pol. Terms, xiv. 136. A theory which, in its day, had a sufficient vogue to transfer its peculiar and technical expressions into common language.
1880. H. James, Hawthorne, 37. The Universal History had a great vogue and passed through hundreds of editions.
b. In similar use with the or other limiting terms.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., I. v. xxxiii. 169. The Lord Treasurer Weston is he who hath the greatest vogue now at Court, but many great ones have clash’d with him.
1674. Boyle, Excell. Theol., II. v. 202. The present success … ought not to make him so sure … that the same Opinions will be always in the same, or greater Vogue.
1697. Bentley, Phal. (1699), 351. The Milesian Cloths had the greatest Vogue in the Greek Markets.
1709. O. Dykes, Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2), 18. Prodigality is a jolly Vice, and of the most popular Vogue in the World.
1743. Fielding, J. Wild, I. iv. Whisk and swabbers was the game then in the chief vogue.
1834. Macaulay, Ess., Pitt, ¶ 24. The vogue which it has obtained may serve to show to show in how slovenly a way most people are content to think.
1881. Athenæum, 15 Jan., 88/3. The vogue which mountaineering has acquired of late years.
c. With possessives (or of).
a. 1683. Oldham, Art of Poetry, Wks. (1686), 7. Others … Shall be revived, and come again in force If custom please: from whence their vogue they draw.
1737. L. Clarke, Hist. Bible (1740), II. 316. James, in regard of his great Vogue with the populace, for sincerity, virtue, and judgment.
1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl., Let. 4 July. All these places, Bath excepted, have their vogue, and then the fashion changes.
1780. Miss Wilkes, in Corr. J. Wilkes (1805), IV. 298. The vogue of this employment occasions a great many presents being made.
1835. Court Mag., VI. p. x/2. Tartan shawls have entirely lost their vogue; they are replaced by Egyptian shawls, which are now more fashionable than any other.
1855. N. Hawthorne, in Life Longfellow (1891), II. 287. No other poet has anything like your vogue.
1886. Ch. Times, 730/1. Its defects, not its merits are the source of its vogue.
II. † 4. a. Natural bent or capacity. Obs.–1
1590. Sir R. Williams, Disc. Warre, 25. If they finde any of great qualitie that carries a voge, to command popular or men of war.
† b. General course or tendency; general character or condition. Obs.
1626. T. H[awkins], trans. Caussin’s Holy Crt., 74. They seing all things are permitted them, do instantly take that vogue, which depraued nature doth present vnto them, they follow the track of pleasure.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Bunch of Grapes, i. One vogue and vein, One aire of thought usurps my brain.
1647. Lilly, Chr. Astrol., cxiii. 543. The Native … shall live gallantly … above the ordinary Vogue of his Birth.
1660. Gauden, Slight Healers, 76. They go with the vogue and stream of times.
1702. Eng. Theophrast., 195. Mens merit is generally judg’d of by the Vogue of the Fortune they are in.
1729. Law, Serious C., xvii. 308. According to the spirit and vogue of this world, whose corrupt air we have all breath’d, there are many things that pass for great, and honourable.
† c. Vigor or energy. Obs.–1
1674. Ch. & Court of Rome, 5. This is at large inculcated … with great vouge and ostentation by the Bishop of Condom.
† 5. The approbation, approval, or popular favor of some class of persons, etc. Obs.
1606. Birnie, Kirk-Buriall, ix. For many to eternize their soone forgot memory, and to gaine the vogue of this vaine world, hes prepared Pyramides of pomp.
1646. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. (Grosart), I. 75. Wouldst Thou wooe a Feature In a glasse?… Or resigne what you may claime To the vogue of vulgar ffame.
1662–3. South, Serm. (1843), II. xviii. 305. A King … not owing his Kingdom to the vogue of the populace but to the suffrage of nature.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., x. § 1 (1689), 97. For that the Trout is the most Excellent Fish, by the Vogue of the most curious Palates.
1720. Welton, Suffer. Son of God, II. xx. 565. I would fain Recollect and Obtain the Universal Approbation and Vogue in my own Favour.
† b. The current opinion or belief; the general report or rumor. Obs.
1626. in Birch, Crt. & Times Chas. I. (1848), I. 131. Some affirm the Earl of Suffolk … goes general of the fleet…. Captain Pennington hath the vogue to go to his vice-admiral.
1661. Sir P. Tyrill, in Essex Rev. (1909), XVIII. 95. The generall vogue of the towne is yt yesterday the Portugall match was agreed upon at the Counsell.
1685. J. Chamberlayne, Coffee, Tea & Choc., 49. Indeed ’tis the common vogue and opinion of this Country, that there is nothing more Soveraign then this plant.
1721. Perry, Daggenh. Breach, 79. The Opinion of my Assistants being urg’d, and the general vogue of Men that my Work was carried on in a sufficient Manner.
1730. Swift, Lett. to Gay, 19 Nov. The vogue of our few honest folks here is that Duck is absolutely to succeed Eusden in the laurel.
6. The prevailing fashion or tendency; esp. that which is in favor at a particular time.
1648–9. Eikon Bas., xi. (1662), 46. The common Sewer or stream of the present vogue and humor.
1660. Stillingfl., Iren., II. vi. § 11. (1662), 266. If Jerome speak according to the general vogue, this solution may be sufficient.
1834. Marryat, P. Simple, lxv. His mustachios, bad French, and waltzing … were quite the vogue.
1860. Sala, Lady Chesterf., Pref. p. iii. An age when burlesque is the vogue.
b. Without article or with a.
1689–90. Temple, Ess. Health & Long Life, Wks. 1720, I. 283. As Diseases have changed Vogue, so have Remedies in my Time and Observation.
1738. Fielding, Hist. Register, III. There is a vogue, my Lord, which if you will bring me into, you will lay a lasting obligation on me.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 10 June, 15/3. Others … at once took the thing up and made it a vogue.
