Obs. rare. [ad. L. vomĕre: see VOMIT v.] trans. and absol. To vomit. Also fig.

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1382.  Wyclif, Lev. xviii. 25. Whos hidows synnes Y shal visite, that it caste [early MSS. vome] out his dwellers. Ibid., Jer. xxv. 27. Drinketh, and beth drunken, and vometh, and falleth.

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1407.  Exam. W. Thorpe, in MS. Rawl. C. 208, lf. 24. He & hise felowis mowen sore drede,… last þei ben sodeynli vomed out of þe noumbre of goddis chosen peple.

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1549.  Compl. Scotl., vi. 67. I sau brume, that prouokis ane person to vome ald feume.

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  Hence † Voming vbl. sb. and ppl. a. Obs.

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1382.  Wyclif, Isa. xix. 14. To erren thei maden Egipt … as erreth a drunke man and a vomende. Ibid. Jer. xlviii. 26. He shal hurtle the hond of Moab in his vomyng. Ibid., 2 Pet. ii. 22. A sowe waschun [returned] in the walewinge [v.r. vomyng].

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