Who trusts to beauty, trusts the fading rose. Narcissus’ change, to the vain virgin shows The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. The glorious beauty on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower. To be naturally not durable to be transient easily to lose vigour or beauty. Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Where either through the temper of the body, or some other default, the memory is very weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade. To die away gradually to vanish to be worn out. Ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. The spots in this stone are of the same colour throughout, even to the very edges there being an immediate transition from white to black, and the colours not fading or declining gradually. The greenness of a leaf ought to pass for apparent, because soon fading into a yellow, it scarce lasts at all, in comparison of the greenness of an emerald. To tend from a brighter to a weaker colour. To tend from greater to less vigour to grow weak to languish. Dryden.Įtymology: fade, French, insipid, languid. Still thriv’d no Winter could his laurels fade. His palms, though under weights they did not stand, This is a man old, wrinkled, faded, withered To wear away to reduce to languor to deprive of freshness or vigour to wither. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes
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