noun
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Etymology
Origin of vade mecum
First recorded in 1620–30; from Latin vāde mēcum literally, “go with me”
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Such a vade mecum Abbe Dimnet gracefully provides in the form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far from bridging the communications gap between East and West, this vade mecum is sure to cause confusion if not some international incidents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Literary Anecdotes forms a handy vade mecum of great and terrible superlatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Distributed in more than a billion copies, the so-called Little Red Book remains the fundamental vade mecum of every citizen of the Chinese People's Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would declaim by the hour on the iniquitous prices that prevail in the interior and had the quotations of prices of every conceivable merchandise from his vade mecum at his fingers' ends.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
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