volge
English
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editvolge pl (plural only)
- (obsolete) The common people; the crowd, the mob.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Prince Edwards Performance in Palestine: He is Dangerously Wounded; yet Recovereth, and Returneth Home Safe”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 219:
- [Y]ea, he would profer to fight with any mean perſon, if cried up by the volge for a tall man: this daring being a generall fault in great ſpirits, and a great fault in a Generall, who ſtaketh a pearl againſt a piece of glaſſe.
See also
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edit- “volge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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References
edit- volge in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle High German
editEtymology
editFrom Old High German folga.
Noun
editvolge f
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “volge”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
- Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
- “volge” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.
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