Meanings of vade mecum in английском

This prophecy of Noah is the vade mecum of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it.

Fire is the Arabs' vade mecum; the actual cautery is deeply respected, and is supposed to be infallible.

So, driven to the wall, we go for our subject-matter to the reliable, old, moral, unassailable vade mecum-theunabridged dictionary.

The document is nevertheless a useful vade mecum and overview of the British government's positions and arguments on the forthcoming Inter Governmental Conference.

She spoke eight languages fluently, including Arabic, and was a perfect " vade mecum" of interesting information which she well knew how to impart.

He looked at the title page; the book was called "The Stock Breeder's Vade Mecum."

(1 and 2 combined) Pervade, invade, evasion, vade mecum.

My Vade Mecum, like most of its kind, was unfortunately compiled many years ago and had never been brought up to date.

Mrs. Fletcher says you are to get the lozenges at Squire's in Oxford Street, and be sure to ask for the Vade mecum lozenges.