vigily

English

Etymology

From Middle English vigilye, vigilie, from Latin vigilia.

Noun

vigily (plural vigilies)

1. (obsolete) A vigil.
   • 1901, Thomas Graves Law, Catholic Tractates of the Sixteenth Century, 1573-1600, page 210:

     Obserue the fastes commandit on certane daies and tymes, as in Lent, in the four tymes of the yeer (comunlie callit Imber daies) and in the euinnes or vigilies of certane solemne daies, on friday and saturday abstein from eating of […]

   • 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague, page 133:

     [...]; other times the heat is not very intense either without or within; continual vigilies, or a perpetual restlesness, with anguishing Jactitations, or throwing ones self from one part of the Bed to the other […]

   • 1694, Royal Society (Great Britain), Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, page 24:

     [...] distortion of the Eyes, from a confused and irregular expansion of the Optick Nerve, attended with ar extraordinary fierceness in the whole Visage, continual Vigilies, and a constant Trepidation, […]

Further reading

• “vigily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.