VIGILATE ET ORATE (L.), watch and pray.
VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO (L.), it gains strength as it goes.
VIRGILIUM VIDI TANTUM (L.), I just saw Virgil [and no more].
VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE (L.), for maidens and boys--for the young person.
VIRTUS POST NUMMOS (L.), virtue after money--i.e. money first.
VIRTUTE OFFICII (Late L.), by virtue of office.
VIS A TERGO (L.), compulsion from behind.
VIS-À-VIS (Fr.), opposite: facing.
VIS COMICA (L.), comic power.
VIS INERTIÆ (L.), the power of inertia: passive resistance.
VITA BREVIS, ARS LONGA (L.), life is short, art is long.
VITA PATRIS (L.), or V.P., in the father's lifetime.
VITA SINE LITTERIS MORS EST (L.), life without literature is death.
VIVAT REGINA! (L.), long live the queen!
VIVAT REX! (L.), long live the king!
VIVÂ VOCE (L.), by the living voice: by oral testimony.
VIVE LA BAGATELLE! (quasi-French), long live folly!
VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE! (Fr.), long live the republic!
VIVE L'EMPEREUR! (Fr.), long live the emperor!
VIVE UT VIVAS (L.), live that you may live.
VIVE, VALEQUE! (L.), life and health to you!
VIXERE FORTES ANTE AGAMEMNONA (L.), brave heroes lived before Agamemnon.
VOGUE LA GALÈRE! (Fr.), forward, come what may!
VOILÀ (Fr.), behold: there is, or there are.
VOILÀ TOUT (Fr.), that is all.
VOITURE (Fr.), a carriage.
VOLAGE (Fr.), flighty, fickle, giddy.
VOLENTE DEO (L.), God willing.
VOLO, NON VALEO (L.), I am willing, but unable.
VOLTO SCIOLTO E PENSIERI STRETTI (It.), countenance open and thoughts
closed.
VOUS L'AVEZ VOULU, GEORGE DANDIN! (Fr.), you would have it so! [from
Molière's _George Dandin_].
VOX ET PRÆTEREA NIHIL (L.), a voice and nothing more.
VOX POPULI, VOX DEI (L.), the voice of the people is the voice of God.
VULGO (L.), commonly.
WAHRHEIT UND DICHTUNG (Ger.), truth and poetry.
WANDERJAHRE (Ger.), years of journeymanship.
WELI, WELY (Ar.), a Mohammedan saint.
WELTGEIST (Ger.), the world-spirit.
WELTSCHMERZ (Ger.), world-sorrow: sympathy with universal misery:
thorough-going pessimism.
WIENER SCHNITZEL (Ger.), a veal cutlet dressed with bread-crumbs and eggs.
XANTHIPPE (Gr.), a shrewish wife--from the wife of Socrates.
XERAFIN, XERAPHIM (Port.), a silver coin of Goa, worth about 1s. 5d.
XERES (Sp.), wine of Xeres, sherry.
XYSTUM, pl. XYSTA (L.--Gr.), a covered colonnade in a gymnasium, a shaded
walk in the garden of a Roman village.
YABOO (Pers.), an Afghan pony.
YAGHOURT, YAOORT (Turk.), a kind of cream cheese.
ZABETA (Ar.), a stated tariff.
ZABTIE, ZAPTIEH (Turk.), a Turkish policeman.
ZAMARRA, ZAMARRO (Sp.), a shepherd's sheepskin coat.
ZECCHIN. See _Sequin_ in Dict.
ZEITGEIST (Ger.), spirit [and tendency] of the times.
ZEITVERTREIB (Ger.), a pastime.
ZIF (Heb.), a Hebrew month, same as _Iyar_, which begins with the new moon
of April.
ZIKR (Ar.), a dervishes' circular dance.
ZOLLVEREIN (Ger.), the German Customs-League.
ZONAM PERDIDIT (L.), he has lost his purse, he is in needy circumstances.
ZONUM SOLVERE (L.), to loose the virgin zone.
Z[=O]ON POLITIKON (Gr.), a political animal [said of man].
ZUM BEISPIEL (Ger.), for example, often Z.B.
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