1894 Brewer’s / V / Vade Mecum [a go-with-me]
A pocket-book, memorandum-book, pocket cyclopædia, lady’s pocket companion, or anything else which contains many things of daily use in a small compass.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.