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verb

Vie v. t. (past & past part. vied; pres. part. vying)

To stake; to wager. (Obs.)

To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. (Obs.) "She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss She vied so fast." "Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them." "And vying malice with my gentleness, Pick quarrels with their only happiness."

Vie v. i. (past & past part. vied; pres. part. vying)

To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie. (Obs.)

To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition. "In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as... to vie with the best of their family." "While Waterloo with Cannae's carnage vies."

noun

Vie n. A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager. (Obs.) "We 'll all to church together instantly, And then a vie for boys."

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"Vie" Quotes from Famous Books

... occasionally, as he does in many of the other novels. This Balzacian trick obsessed the author for a time. The book is dedicated to John S. Rutherford and bears as a motto on its title page this quotation from Rabusson: "Pourquoi la mort? Dites, plutot, pourquoi la vie?" ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

... I declared. "There's nothing to all this but a pipe dream! Why shouldn't two women like Eau de vie de Dantzic as a liqueur? It's very fashionable—a sort ...

— Vicky Van • Carolyn Wells

... they were with him. At night, while the people were sleeping, he would make his men draw water, and throw it over them, for mere amusement. There are many commanders as bad as he is on the coast, who seem to vie with each other in acts of cruelty and oppression. The captain of the palm oil brig Elizabeth, now in the Calebar River, actually whitewashed his crew from head to foot, while they were sick with fever, and unable to protect themselves; his cook suffered so much in the operation, that ...

— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

... see her first. Please tell her that they've seen me and that it's 'all right,' as the English say. She'll understand. Oh, and be so good as to tell her I'm appointed secretary of the committee.... But she'll understand! You know, les petites miseres de la vie humaine," he said, as it were apologizing to the princess. "And Princess Myakaya—not Liza, but Bibish—is sending a thousand guns and twelve ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... flashed across her vision. La Pompadour was getting old, men said, and the King was already casting his eyes round the circle of more youthful beauties in his Court for a successor. "And what woman in the world," thought she, "could vie with Angelique des Meloises if she chose to enter the arena to supplant La Pompadour? Nay, more! If the prize of the King were her lot, she would outdo La Maintenon herself, and end by sitting ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

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