Obs. [f. the sb.]
1. trans. To cry up or down.
c. 1661. in Harl. Misc. (1746), VIII. 31/2. He procured an awe and reverence to himself, being vogued up by the Clergy, and rendered to the Vulgar as a Pattern of Piety.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 408. Thus may a good Medicine be vogu’d down by a groundless fancy!
b. To bring into, or keep in, vogue.
1687. J. Reynolds, Death’s Vis., Pref. (1713), 2. [That] those Poets shou’d be chiefly Applauded and Vogued, whose sole use of Religion … is to Undermine and Lampoon it.
2. To repute or reckon (as something).
1675. R. Burthogge, Causa Dei, 251. Pythagoras … might put this Honorary Mark upon the Ternary Number, and Vogue it Sacred and Divine.
1682. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 78 (1773), II. 228. Hellish Rage, which, forsooth, must be vogued Protestant Zeal.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. xlii. Some who would take it ill not to be vogued for first-rate Politicians.
