Obs. Also vye, uye, uie, vi. [a. OF. (also mod.F.) vie:—L. vīta life.]
1. An account of the life of a saint.
a. 1200. St. Marher., 34. Here i mai tellen ou … The vie of one meidan, was hoten Maregrete.
a. 1225. Juliana, 2. Her cumseð þe uie of seinte iuliane, ant telleð of liflade hire.
a. 1300. Marina, 227, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1878), 173. He þat made & wrot þis vie, & hyre haþ in memorie, From shome Crist him shilde.
2. Way of, or lot in, life.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3474. Oure lauerd … Had don hir in to sikernes,… Quat suld be þaa childer vie, O þair weird and o þair lijf. Ibid., 21740. Þe croice … es … Fondement of ur clergi, Reule it es of hali vi.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIV. 122. Angeles þat in helle now ben, hadden ioye some tyme, And diues in deyntees lyued, and in douce vye.
