wenden - Middle English Compendium\nForms wenden v. Also wend(e, went, wind(e(n, wiend(e, vend(e, (chiefly N or NWM) weind(e(n, (N) whend(e, veind & wēnd(e & (early) wendan, uend(e, vent, (SEM) wænd(en, wand(e(n, (SWM) hwenden & (early infl.) wendende & (?errors) wen, wenid; sg.3 wendeth, etc. & (WM) wendus, (chiefly early) went, (early SEM) want & (error) wenðet; pl. wenden, etc. & (early) wendet, wendæþ, (SEM) want; impv. wend(e, etc. & wendit, (early SEM) want; p. wended, (NWM) weindut & went(e, wende, wante, vent(e, (N) whent, (early) weint, wænde, (early SEM) wænte & (error) wet; pl. went(e(n, wenton(e, vent, (N) wentain, weint & (chiefly early) wende(n, (early) wendan, wændon, wanten, (SWM) wunden; ppl. went(e, wend, (WM) weint, want, (early) vend. Contractions: wentestou (= wentest thou), wendte (= wend the), wentem (= went hem), wenhim (= wend him).\nEtymology OE wendan, wændan, (Nhb.) woendan to turn; occas. difficult to distinguish from ME wīnden v.(1).\nNote: Cp. awenden v., biwenden v., forth-wenden v., forwend ppl., iwenden v., miswenden v., ofwenden v., outwenden v., overwenden v., towenden v.(1) & (2), underwenden v., upwenden v.; for semantic model cp. gon v. & yede v. for senses 1.-16., turnen v. for senses 17.-29.\n(a) To go on foot, walk; ~ and (or) riden, riden and ~; ~ walkinge; ~ in, walk around; ~ in honde, walk hand in hand; ~ on alle four, crawl on hands and knees; ~ righte up (uprightes), walk erect; ~ up and doun, pace; (b) in phrase: ~ biforen, to precede (sb.); also, fig. surpass (sb.).\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1788 : Þei went on alle four, as doþ wilde bestes.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1789 : Whan þei wery were, þei went upriʒttes.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.37.7 : A wrecche I am maad…al dai al drery I wente in [L ingrediebar].\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.3.16 : Þe doʒtris of syon…wenten with straʒt out necke…& flappeden with hondis for ioʒe & ʒiden.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2148 : Aboute his chaar ther wente white alauntz, Twenty and mo as grete as any steer.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2778 : Þer wer on Troye syde Of fyʒtyng men þat wente and dide ride An hundrid þousand.\nc1425 *Wycl.Concord.(Roy 17.B.1)126b : Ihc wente on þe see.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)225/36 : Hir eldmodir went vp & down in þe qwer, thynkyng in hir mende.\n1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)2044 : Ryht vp also & nothynge stoupynge Al þe tyme she wet [read: went].\na1450 Dux Moraud (BodPoet f.2)83 : Rap we vs to wendyn in honde To þi chambyr.\n?a1475 By a forest (Dc 322)1 : By a forest syde, walkyng as I went…in o mornyng A place I fonde.\na1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)2527 : At my request drye vp this Riveer…Suffre that thei with drye feet may weende.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)253 : Mi fadir wente vp to þat hil, But he mighte neuere come þere til.\n1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)1445 : I went on right honde and on lefte About the place…Tyl I had al the garden bene.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Eccl.1.16 : I wente beforn alle in wisdam þat weren befor me in ierusalem.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.997 : Alla kyng shal comen in pilgrymage By herbergeours that wenten hym biforn.\n(a) To make one’s way, travel, proceed, move;—also refl.; fig. continue a narrative [quot. c1450]; ~ thider (wher, whider, etc.); (b) to wander, roam; also, stray; also fig.; ~ abouten (ther-abouten, etc.); ~ wil; ben went; (c) with adverbs of direction: ~ abak, to retreat; ~ abouten, make a circuit; ~ alonde, go ashore; ~ bak-ward, fig. regress; ~ forth; ~ hom, hom-ward ~, ben went hom; ~ in; ~ oute, circulate; ~ over, make a crossing; ~ to, make an approach; ~ up, rise; also, climb up; ~ up and doun, ascend and descend; move erratically; also, fig. be busy; (d) refl. with adverbs of direction: ~ awei (forth, hom-ward), to betake oneself away (homeward, etc.); (e) ~ togeder, to copulate.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)16669 : Acc þu ne mahht nohht witenn…Fra wheþennwarrd gast cumeþþ forþ Ne whiderrwarrd he wendeþþ.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)10/57 : Heo wes swa itend of wreaððe þet wod ha walde iwurden; het up of hire hird hwuch as ha walde ant wende hire þiderwart.\nc1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)32/297 : Se swote smeal ham folheð hwider se ha wendeð þet me mahte libben aa bi þe swotnesse.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13104 : Ʒif þu þider wendest and þine ferde ledest, þu scalt beon under-uonge.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13133 : Heo bi-comen sone to þan uolke of Rome wurðliliche iwepned: wunden an horsen.\nc1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)215/25 : Þo kinges hem wenten and hi seghen þo sterre, þet yede bifore hem.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1346 : He wilen þe nouth werne; With þe wende shulen he yerne.\na1325 SLeg.Patr.(Corp-C 145)76 : Manie þuder wendeþ & comeþ aʒen vewe.\n?c1335 Earth(1) (Hrl 913)4/74 : Whoder schaltou wend?\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2130 : Þei wende wiʒtly as wide as þi reaume.\n(c1390) Chart.Abbey HG (LdMisc 210)352 : He wente wiþ Ioseph & his moder to Ierusalem, for þei weren wont to weynden þeder eueryche ʒer.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3486 : Blesse this hous…Where wentestow seint Petres soster.\na1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)96 : I rekke neuer wheder y wende.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2403 : Als þai war wendand [Frf: wyndand] þider-ward He hir bisoght o sli forward.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)23.381 : Ich wol by-come a pilgryme, And wenden as wide as the wordle [vr. world] regneþ To seke peers þe plouhman.\na1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)527 : Wendes with me, Who so wil þat wonder se.\na1450(?c1350) Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)162 : Þou art lord of lim and life…Stif and strong and sterne in strif, In londe qwher þou wende.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)2027 : When þai sal went in cuntre, Þair clething sal mor honest be.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)461 : I shuld of þat pardoun telle, And þerefor ferthirmore wol I wende, And here of Rome I make an eende.\nc1450 Siege Troy(1) (ArmsAr 22)1949 : Now tak…al myn ost & wendit preuely wyþ-oute bost.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)34/171 : Thu xalt be cursyd on þe grounde Vn-prophitable where so þou wende.\na1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)110/25 : Wende noght in host with oute haberion or quyrre.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)11 : Þe herd had wiþ him an hound…forto bayte on his bestes wanne þai to brode went.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)89 : He…made þe most dool þat man miʒt divise And as þe best in his bale þer aboute wente.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.361 : He [Aristotle] levede after Plato his deth foure and twenty ʒere, somtyme techynge Alisaundre, somtyme wendynge aboute wiþ hym into meny londes.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.246 : Crist him self hath bode pes And set it in his testament; How now that holy cherche is went Of that, here lawe positif Hath set to make werre and strif For worldes good.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)prol.162 : Vncoupled þei wenden Boþe in wareine & in waste.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)126/25 : I spak but of o preste be þe maner of exampyl, þe whech as I haue lernyd went wil in a wode thorw þe sufferawns of God.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)306 : In non abbay wil þai dwell, Bot wendes a-bout fro cel to cel.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)500 : Us is likful and lef in landus to walke…Miche wilne we wende in þe wodus þikke For to rome undur ris þat rif is of levus.\nc1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)109 : The hors was sette opon whelis…and when nyght come…the knyghtes lepid owt of the hors and vent abowte in the cete.\na1500 Ho may þe (Lin-C 44)p.77 : Qwo may þe hwngri lyon sle þat be þe wod es went?\nc1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)16/15 : Ða ðe dauid þet ihyrde ða wearð he mucel iblissod &…ham wende.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6497 : Drihhtin…radde hemm þatt teʒʒ sholldenn ham Wiþþ oþerr weʒʒe wendenn.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)44/17 : Heo, ase schene ase schininde sunne, wende up of þe weater.\nc1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)83,89 : ‘Iche habbe þe churche a-rerd…wiend In atþe est-porche’…At þe est-porche huy wenden In.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1344 : Prey grimes sones alle þre That he wenden forþ with þe.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10647 : Tuelf hundered as in ʒer of grace & nintene…Þe eire of iustize wende aboute in þe londe.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.84 : Alle þat seen þis…shullen heren þe grete voice from heuen…& þai shullen wenden [vr. wynden] vp in a cloude.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 17.16 : Ne abide þou þis nyʒt in þe wijlde feeldis of desert but with oute tariynge weend ouer.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)3 Kings 2.34 : Banaye þe sone of Joiade steʒede vp & wente to & sloowʒ hym.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.173 : Whan they han this blisful mayden sayn, Hom to Surrye been they went ful fayn.\na1400 Nicod.(2) (Pep 2498)124/13 : We seiʒ hym wende vp into heuene.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)166/2 : Mony bigylers wenten out in þe world, þat knowlechen not Ihesu Crist come in flesh.\n?c1400 Cursor (Arms 57)2434 : Whenne he wolde no lenger lende Þat he most frely hamwarde wende.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4156 : Of þe Ioye þat was in þe toun, In eche place wher men went vp & doun, I am to rude, sothly, al to wryte.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)642 : Forth withoute wordis mo In at the wiket went I tho.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1345 : I…Wente vp and doun full many awey, And he me folwed fast alwey.\na1425 Siege Troy(1) (LinI 150)8/76 : Ercules and Jason wenten aland.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)119/13 : Þei goon bacward and wolen not amenden hem, but raþir walke in þe watir of þe same flood aforesaid and…manye of hem þat bigunnen to go wenten faste bakward.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)800 : Iacob in visioun Saw angels wend both vp & doun.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)110/20 : He kepte not the olde disciplyne of armes whiche he was acustomed to kepe byfor tyme; he went all bacwarde.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.112 : Here preyʒerys…been plesaunt to God and wendyn vp to God.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)75 : Alle the peple…whan they sawe that merueyle, wer gretly aferde, and for the wondres that they sawe beeten her brestes and wente home.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)5796 : Obacke went the batell of þe burghe folke.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)26/33 : Ða ilyfde þe kyng þæs Hælendes spæce & wende him hamweard.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11396 : Sone anan affterr þatt word Himm wennde aweʒʒ þe deofell & enngless comenn.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)660 : Wiend þe forth in þe se for þi wei nis nouʒt al i-do.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2502 : William…went him wiʒtly awei fro hem sone.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7346 : Fill þi horn Wit oile, and weind þe forth to morn.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19827 : He þam send Als þe angel had him kend; þai went [Phys-E: wentain] þam forth.\nc1390(?a1325) Adam & E.(2) (Vrn)223/38 : He and Eue, his wyf, wenten togedere, & þo was Caym biʒeten.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)3566 : Men and þei wendiþ to-gidre þere And han wiþ hem felashipe, And of sibred þei take no kepe.\nWith selected common prep. phrases: (a) ~ aboven, to go above (the heavens); ~ adoun, go down (a stair); ~ after, follow (sb., an animal), pursue; ~ among, move through (a crowd); ~ ayen (ayenes), advance toward (sb.); also, go against (sb.), attack; ~ bi, pass (sb.); also, travel via (a certain route); (b) ~ from (of)…to, ~ oute of…in-to, to go from (one place) to (another); ~ in (in-til, in-to), go into (a place), enter; ~ on (upon), go atop (sth.); ~ til (to, unto), ben went to (til), approach (sb., a place), go to; ~ thurgh; ~ toward; ~ under, go under (water), sink; (c) refl. betake oneself (into a place, to sb., etc.).\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1264 : Þemperour seiʒh William…and William þanne to welkome, he wendes him aʒeynes.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1277 : Þemperours men manly made þe chace…And ever William so wiʒtly went hem among to þe boldest burnes.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2371 : Þe werwolf…wiʒtly as a wod best went hem aʒens.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2386 : Many a bold burn…went after þe werwolf.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7658 : Son efter þis a batail ras, And dauid went a-gain his faas.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)15034 : Þe childer…war waike to weind þat pres emang.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.813 : Adown the steyre anonright tho she wente.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)450 : Thowe moste spede at the spurs…Thow weyndez by Watlyng-strette, and by no waye ells.\na1450 Fasc.Mor.(Rwl C.670)Tag 26  : Ʒe men þat by me wendenn, Abydes a while and loke on me.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)148/24 : She…lefte all hure lemans and vente aʒeyns hym with a good semblant.\na1500(?c1400) EToulouse (Cmb Ff.2.38)1186 : Anon, syr, y the pray Aftur hym þat thou wende.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.216 : He schulde pasyn forth bodelyche out of þis world & wendyn abouyn alle heuenys.\na1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)1004 : The kyng sawe that, and after them he went.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)51/17 : He þærrihte wende to Sancta Marien temple.\nc1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Evang.(Bod 343)18/5 : Sum his þeʒenæ…wende to þam munuce.\nc1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)16/33 : Ða bedon heo dauid þet he for godes lufe mid heom to heoræ husæn wendan sceolde.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8446 : Ne durrste he nohht Inntill þatt ende wendenn.\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)185 : Ho wende to þe loþe þing, þe rode in hire hond.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)10410 : He ulih to þan holme & his hol isecheð; i þan uirste ænde i þan holle wendeð.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Horst.)221 : Þe foweles, þo hit eue was, bigonne here euesong…Þe monekes wende to bedde & slepe.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)798 : Vt of egipte riche man Wente abram in-to lond canaan.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)170 : Me mai wende Fram þe on ende of engelond vorþ to þe oþer ende.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11234 : Sir edward…toward þe march gan wende.\nc1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)4449 : Whende ichil in-to mi cuntre, Mine frendes to visite.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.78 : I went vnto þe Aungel & bad hym take me þe book.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)788 : William went til þis gardin his wo fort slake.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4292 : The shippes botme rente And ship and man vnder the water wente.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10950 : He went vnto þe auter.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.41 : Now is kyng Suane went tille his cuntre.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)599 : He shal wende of londe fer, To Grece and comen neuer ner.\nc1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)132/9 : ij men of Engeland were went to þe Holy Lande, & haden done her pilgrimage.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Luke 5.19 : Thei wenten on the roof.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)3006 : Thorough the breres anoon wente I, Wherof encombred was the hay.\na1425 HBk.GDei (Hnt HM 148)70/10 : Whend to þe kirke whene þou has done.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)17/22 : Þe…goost anoon…dyd hym in liknes of a pilgrym & wente þoruʒ þe cytee.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)3 : To oridrace [read: Oxidrace] wiþ his ost Alixandre wendus.\nc1450(a1400) Chev.Assigne (Clg A.2)19 : Þey wente vpon a walle…The Kynge loked adowne.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)8/222 : Weynd here in to paradise, and luke now that ye be wyse.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)13705 : Pirrus by purpos prestly con wend Into delphon.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)33/26 : He wænde hine to wage, þære heo him ætwæron.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11320 : Forrþrihht se Jesuss fullhtnedd wass, He wennde himm inntill wesste.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)14/29 : Þrefter wendeð ow to ure leafdi onlicnesse, & cneolið wið fif auez…& to ower relikes luteð oþer cneolið.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)12861 : Beduer, far biliue…and wend þe ouer þat water deope mid allen þine iwede.\n?a1300 Sirith (Dgb 86)19 : He wente him to þen inne Þer hoe wonede inne.\nc1330 Orfeo (Auch)42/501 : Þe beggers cloþes he borwed anon…& went him in-to þat cite.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1975 : Þemperour…went himself in wraþe to þat worþies chaumber.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8024 : He past þe flum his folk him wit; þai went þam thoru feild and frith.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)15559 : Weind yow in-to galilee, and i sal mete yow þare.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.12.19 : He wente hym to the houses of helle and…tempride his blaundysschinge songes by resounynge strenges.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)26/4 : He took his leeue and…went hym to ryuer his faukun see to fle.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)420/3 : Quene Isode walked into the foreste and put away hir thoughtes, and there she wente hirselff unto a welle and made grete moone.\nc1475(a1400) Brut-1333 (Dc 323)8/4 : Brut þo toke his wyf, & all his men…& wenten hem vnto þe see & hadden wedir at wyll.\na1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)13 : Kyng Cadwaladre…toke a serteyne meyne with him and went him to shippe and forsoke his owne kyngdome.\nIn idiomatic prep. phrases: (a) ~ bi (in, on, upon) wei, ben went on (upon) wei, to travel along a road; also, proceed on (one’s) way; ~ on gate, go on (one’s) way; (b) ~ in (on) journei, to be on (one’s) way; ~ on (in) pilgrimage, go on a pilgrimage; (c) ~ in compas, to move in a circle.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1912 : Þan awaked þei wiʒtli and went on here gate.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2618 : Þei went fast on here way, þe werwolf hem ladde.\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.534 : He lefte hir lye, and on his wey he went.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)14194 : Qua has to weind on ani wai Gode es þai ga bi þe light of dai.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)prol.48 : Thei went forth in here wey with many wise tales.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1028 : Þay lachen her leue, Vchon to wende on his way.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.1491 : He thonked hire, and went upon his weye.\n?a1425(c1280) SLeg.Eust.(Jul D.9)97 : ‘Lord,’ he sede, ‘whiþer schal ich nou?’ & wente bi an vncouþe weie.\nc1440 Degrev.(Thrn)123 : Forthe on his way es he went Als fast als he maye.\n?a1450 MLChrist (Add 39996)500 : Þai waked…And wenten by anoþer way…Right into her reme agayn.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)465 : Forth in his waie nowe wendith he Ouere the grete Grekisshe Se Into the lande of Hungare.\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.35 : He cummawundutte his squier for to goe To pray the marchand…To soupe with him that nyʒte; Thenne the squier weyndut vpon his way.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)58 : The kynge satte vppon his stede, And forthe is went vppon his way.\nc1330(?c1300) Amis (Auch)255 : He tok his leue for to fare, To wende in [vr. on] his iorne.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.177 : Other-while is his wone, to wende in pilgrymage.\na1450 ME Verse in Anglia 92p.66 : Ore lowe is wente on pylgrymage.\nc1430(c1395) Chaucer LGW Prol.(2) (Benson-Robinson)199 : They gonne espye…the dayesye…And after that they wenten in compas, Daunsynge aboute this flour.\n(a) To go through (a place), traverse; (b) ~ wei (gate, ride), to follow a course, take (one’s) way; ~ weies, travel certain paths; also fig.; ~ forth; (c) to make a journey to (a market, holy place); also, take part in (a procession).\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)228 : A clerc þorʒ enchantement him bigan þo telle Þat þat child…ssulde mani lond over passi & wende.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14942 : Sex dais forwit pask-dai Wit his he went þe strete.\na1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)83 : Swoo wyde landes we haue went.\na1500 Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)55 : That kyngly Citee with the house of Porrus we inwaded and went.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)264/132 : He wente forth þene wei toward þe flum Iordan.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3950 : Vp-on hise asse his sadel he dede; To madian lond wente he his ride.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)48 : Wendeþ fforþ þat weye To a castel þat aʒen ʒow is.\nc1390 Treat.Mass (Vrn)123 : Ʒif þou haue eny wey to wende, I rede þou here a masse to ende In þe Morennynge ʒif þow may.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10365 : Quen þou again sal wend þi gate, þou sal mete…þi wijf anna.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)5.53 : What wey ich wende wel ʒerne he aspieþ.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)106/5 : We ben wery in þe wei of wickednes and of lost, and we wente harde weies: þe wei forsoþe of God we knewe not.\na1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)3/67 : Wend þai most anoþer way Euyn thurgh Flandres into France.\n?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)3/13 : He þat wil passe ouer þe see to Ierusalem, he may wende many ways, bathe on þe see and on þe land.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)37 : A sowre…warned hym…That none so sleghe in his slepe with sleghte scholde hym dere, And went the wayes hym by-fore when any wothe tyde.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)585 : Tway chylder wentt…to sodom the gaynyst gate.\na1500(a1400) Libeaus (Lamb 306)322 : We be fer from any frende And have wylde wey to wende.\na1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)115 : He that schall wend soche a wey, Yt were nede for hym to pray.\n?a1500(?1458) Off alle Werkys (Inscr)p.43 : Few folke there were coude that wey wende.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)174/12 : On þe Holy Thursday, as þe sayd creatur went processyon wyth oþer pepil, sche saw in hir sowle owr Lady.\n(1458) Visit Hen.VI (Vsp B.16)37 : The kyng, the Quene…To worshyp that virgine as thei ought, Wenten a procession.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)354/17 : Alle the holy placys in erthe that criste duellyd on, devouthly sche went hem honouryng the godhed.\nc1475 Rwl.Prov.(Rwl D.328)p.124 : The hare wente þe markyth scharlyt forto syll.\n(a) To go one’s way, leave, depart; also fig.;—also refl.; ~ awei (forth, hennes, outre, etc.); to depart from a job or post; (b) to go away (from sb., a place, etc.), part; also fig.; go (out of a place); also, escape (from harm); ~ awei; ~ to hors, depart on horseback; ~ to viage, depart on an expedition; (c) ben went, to have departed; have departed (from sb., a place, etc.); ben went awei (forth, oute); (d) ~ his (theire, your, etc.) wei, ~ min (hire) gate, ~ thin cours, of a person: to be on his (etc.) way, depart; of persons: depart; also, go their separate ways, part; ~ forth; ben went.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)12528 : Þe deofell wennde aweʒʒ anan.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)79 : Ho him forwundeden and letten hine liggen half quic and wenden forð.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)30/14 : Lokið þet te parlures beo on eauer euch half feaste & wel itachet & witeð þer ower ehnen leaste þe heorte edfleo & wende ut as of dauið.\na1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)25 : Werche [read: Wreche] gost, þu uend [vr. wen] auai.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13261 : Bruttes us wulleð scenden ʒif we heonne wendeð…bute we bet aginnen ær we heonene iwenden.\n?a1300 *Body & S.(4) (Dgb 86)49 : Wrecche gost, þou vent auei; fare þer þou shalt fare.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)17 : Forþ he wende wiþ al his mein, And wiþ him his fader chaumberlein.\nc1330 Roland & V.(Auch)307 : A fair miracle god for him dede, Er he gan þennes wende.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.123 : I seiʒ þe temple open in heuene, & þe seuen Aungels wenten out.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1466 : Whan þei wente, grete ʒiftes were give of gold and of selver.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 16.13 : We wenten out withoute the ʒate.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.4215 : The wyf hir routyng leet And gan awake and wente hir out to pisse.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8019 : Haf god-dai, for nov wind i.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22454 : Herken sua þat i sal sai þat he wenid [Göt: weind] noght he fles [Göt: hafles] awai.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)5987 : Wend on þann, siþen ʒe wil ga.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)6.202 : Þanne hadde peres pite and preyed hunger to wende.\n(c1422) Hoccl.JWife (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)483 : They wenten thens vnsped.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.220 : Quod Pandarus, ‘Now tyme is that I wende.’\na1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)229 : Þan xii barouns bolde þe emperour bade wende.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1835 : As for takynge of ʒour lord sall na lede wynde [Dub: weynde].\nc1450(c1400) ?Clanvowe Cuckoo & N.(Frf 16)252 : ‘Now fairewel,’ quoth she, ‘for I most wende.’\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.29 : He toke his leue to wynde…Thenne Sir Amadace…Rode furthe opon his way.\nc1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)1623 : Er thow hens wende, Thow shalt hit know, begynnyng & ende.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)4677 : The kepars of the castell caghten þere armys, Wentten out wightly the water to kepe.\n(1483-85) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.32153 : Item, paid to John Redknap for the odyr half quarter..after that Thomas went, ix s. iiij d.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)87 : Ihc wile turnen agen to mine huse þe ich er ut of wende.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)23/12 : Ða ðe ic wænte fram ðe, ða wente forð mid me ðe ilche gode wille…ðe godd hafde iscapen on ðe.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)23/16 : Alle hie wanten awei fram ðe, for ðan ðe ðu folʒedest ðin aʒene wille.\na1250(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Mdst A.13)93/197 : Þoh his wele him at-go his wit ne went him [Trin-C: wenhim] nefre fro.\nc1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)7/71 : He wenten [vr. vente] vt of halle.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1033 : Fro mambre dale wente ðo ðre.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)962 : Tell me ar i fra þe weind.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)11596 : Sone was ioseph redi boune, wit naghtertale he went of toune.\n(1415) Doc.Conspir.Hen.V in D.K.R.43591 : Than he went to horz & quan he was gone Gray said me that the erle of Cambrige…schulde be on the moroue with my lorde of the March.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)246 : It was not, certein, hir entent That fro that purs a peny went.\na1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)578 : Messangeres…wenton fro sire Fortageres Forto seke þeo child so ʒyng.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)701 : All my lykynge of lyfe owte of lande wendez.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2493 : Thare sall weende to þis viage sir Gawayne.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)990 : We wonde wikkede werk and wende fro skaþe.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)827 : I winde of my wale modire And kaire me to a-noþire kyng.\nc1450 NPass.(Vsp D.9)175/444 : He whent fro hem the cast of a stone.\nc1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)523 : I woll nat fro þe dorr vend.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)2567 : The soule wendeþ fro þe body Whanne he dieth.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)3936 : Whan þe humours done sees…Þe herte restith and stille lendith, And þe merkenesse fro him wendith.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2311 : Quuan he weren ut tune went Iosep haueð hem after sent.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2608 : Tristrem is went oway.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)376 : Þat child from here warde was went for evermore.\nc1390 Swete Ihesu now (Vrn)107 : Preye for me…Whon my soule is from me went Þat hit haue good Iuggement.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3665 : I trowe that he be went For tymber ther oure abbot hath hym sent.\na1400 Cursor (Frf 14)757 : Adam…was went his wyfe sone fra þe nedder nerhande hir con ga.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)6.207 : I wote wel, be þow went, þei wil worche ful ille.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.322 : Euery man is went To his loggynge.\na1425 Swete Ihesu now (Add 37787)376 : What may I sigge but weylawo Won þu my lord art went me fro.\na1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.119 : Whan an unclene spirit is went out from a man, he waundriþ bi drye placis.\na1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.45 : Þei token þe lond And…weren went out of þe boot.\n?a1425 Castle Love(4) (CotApp 7)172 : Forth be my sisters in erth went To make þer all þeir iuggement.\na1450(?c1350) Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)73 : Ʒe bicop is yam wend Fram þat k[e]ne stryf.\na1450 Dux Moraud (BodPoet f.2)112 : For care, withoutyn duere, Is went awey for ay.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)179/33 : To wildernesse he is wente owte.\na1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)2667 : So furth on was to his felawes he went.\na1500 Almyʒty godde conserue (Trin-C O.9.38)26 : When he fro the ys wente A-way, ffor a drawʒt of wyne other ale He woll the wrey.\n1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)352/350 : Be not afrayde of us in fere for he ys wente, withowten were.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)6/9 : As he adei wende his wei [from Antioch], seh þis seli meiden Margarete, as ha wes & wiste up o þe feld hire fost[er]-modres schep.\n?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)350 : Nimeþ ʒoure wepnen & wendeþ ʒoure wai.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)68 : So sone so hit was day, He tok his leue & wente his way.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)12953 : Ich wolle wende mine wai.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1429 : Eliezer is went his wei.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.135 : Iohn lefte þe citee and þe sege and wente his way.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)313 : Þei wenden heore wei and to þe court ʒongen.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.918 : Atte laste he…taketh his leue and wendeth forth his weye.\na1400 Preste ne monke (Cleo B.2)164 : Of I cast my frer cloþing & wyghtly went my gate.\nc1400 In a Chirche (Sim)41 : Out of þat chirche i went my way.\na1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)1561 : Þe knightes þus þaire ways er went To justing and to turnament.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)52/214 : Wende forthe þi course…And werly watte andyþer þe wynd, Yf þou fynde awdir lande or tree.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)10262 : A redlese man was Roboam when þe pepyll went þer ways.\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.38 : Thenne Sir Amadace…Toke leue, and wente his way.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)333/274 : To-morne thou make the yare To weynde thi Way.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)63 : Y was hole and toke my bedde and went my way vn-to my house.\n(a) To sail; sail across a body of water; sail (over a body of water); ~ forth; ~ thider; ~ to ship (se, water), set sail; ben went, have crossed (over a body of water); also, float [quot. a1325]; (b) of a heavenly body or a soul: to move across the heavens, travel across the sky; of the moon: move (into another astrological house); ~ adoun (doun, unto reste), of the sun: pass below the horizon, go down, set; also fig. [last quot.]; ~ cours, of the sun: travel a path from east to west in the sky; ben went doun (west), of a heavenly body, usu. the sun: have set, have gone down; (c) to run, flow; ~ oute (over); (d) fig. and in fig. contexts: to penetrate, pierce; also, pass (through the ears).\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)115/26 : Ferde þa twelf gear bodigende betwux Iren & Scotten…wænde syððen suð ofer sæ to Francene rice…& mynsterlif arærde.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)12747 : Wunden in-to widen sæ: þeines wunder bliðe.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2600 : Ðis child…setten it so ðe water on; Ghe adde or hire dowter sent To loken quider it sulde ben went.\nc1330 Otuel (Auch)1020 : Oue[r] þe water alle þre Beþ went for envie of me.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)18468 : Wendeþ [Göt: veind] ouer þe flom iurdone.\na1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)23/82 : Ilk Inglis man on oþers rig; Ouer þat water er þai went.\n(?c1425) Hoccl.Jonathas (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)558 : My ship, and no mo Of hem þat heere been hem shape & caste Thidir to weende.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)101/12 : Mech of her felaschep went to schip on þe Sonday.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1299 : Nowe they wende ouer the watyre, þise wyrchipfull knyghttez.\nc1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)67 : This king wol wenden over see.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)2/3 : Thei went to the see all thre to gedre.\na1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)113b : Michael þarkangel bade vs to weende forþe ouer Iordan in to best fatte place.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)12453 : Agamynon…Asket leue at the lordes & the lege kynges, ffor to wende to the watur in hor wale shippes, And turne out of troy & the toune leue.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)27/24 : Hwilch an dai bie betere ðan an oðer to anginnen sumþing, oðer newe mone betere ðan æld-mone in to newe huse te wænden oðer wif ham to leden.\nc1300 SLeg.Dunstan (Hrl 2277)71 : He cam to his smyþþe alone him to fonde Riʒt as þe sonne wende adoun.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.2.9 : The sterre…wente bifore hem.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2637 : The sonne vnto the reste wente.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.661 : The dayes moore, and lenger every nyght…the sonne went his cours unright By lenger weye than it was wont to do.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.1.25 : Thilke soule renneth by the cercle of the sterres…and he schal pressen and wenden on the bak of the swifte firmament.\na1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.30.15 : This is to seyn, fro the wey where as the sonne went thilke day but not fro the wey of the sonne in every place of the zodiak.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)5601 : By þe sune was went west, þei had wun wrschepes grett.\n?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)1271 : Þou hase so ferr to ryde Þat þe sonn sall be went doune.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.114 : In his deth þe elde testament endede and wente dooun as þe sonne and þe day goon doun in þe west.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)6237 : Aboue wiþ the sky þei [stars] go…Whan somme goon vp, somme doun be went By mevyng of þe firmament.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)8259 : She [new moon] is þan doun went Wiþ the corse of þe firmament.\na1250(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Tit D.18)123/1615 : Ower wop wendeð al on ow seluen, leste ʒe eft wepen echeliche in helle.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Eccl.1.7 : Þe se redoundeþ not; to þe place whennes þe floodis wenten out, þei turnen aʒeen.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)23b/a : Whanne þat veyne is I-stoppid…þe passage is forbode…by þe whiche wey and passage þe blood moste wende fram þe lyuer to þe herte to fede & norische þe spirit vital.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1867 : He did þe waters ga…þe erth wex bare quen þai ne wend.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)12204 : All þo vessels ware fyld so full þat oyle went ouer.\na1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)80/22 : It [blood] wendys vp to þe haterell.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.272 : Thorugh a route His eye percede, and so depe it wente Til on Criseyde it smot.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1729 : He toke an arowe…And shette att me…That thorough me nye vnto myn hert The takel smote, and depe it wente.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2039 : The ioye wente to myn herte rote Whanne I hadde kissed his mouth so swote.\nc1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)500 : Thourgh myne eres the noyse wente.\n?c1450 Trivet Constance (Harv Eng.938)234 : For cause that the dethe wente nere hys herte then to any other body, he skypped aboute the house as a woodman.\nTo descend, come down; ~ of; ~ doun, fall (onto one’s knees); ~ doun of, alight from (a horse, knee); ~ to erthe (ground), fall; ben went, fall (on sb.); ben went to nekke, of a jaw: be lowered.\nc1300 Horn (LdMisc 108)34/626 : At þe furste dunte Hys heued of gan wente.\nc1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)320 : Ʒif þer ani maiden is þat þamerail halt of mest pris, þe flour schal on here be went þourh art and þourgh enchantement.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1875 : Doun on knees wente euery maner wight And thonken hym with al hir herte and myght.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)11612 : Whenne Ihesus say hem drad so be, He went doun of [Vsp: He lighted of] his modir kne.\na1425(c1300) Assump.Virg.(1) (Add 10036)131/711 : Here mouþes were to here nek went; Thei þouʒt alle þat þei were schent.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)655 : The longe day in fyght they spende…Fleth ek the queen…For strokes, whiche that wente as thikke as hayl.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)28/6 : Eythir smote othir so that horse and man wente to the erthe.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)30/3 : Gryfflet…smote a knyght on the templis that hede and helme wente of to the erthe.\nc1450(a1400) Chev.Assigne (Clg A.2)302 : What yf grace be we to grownde wenden?\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Add 9066)328 : Whan the Emperour vndirstode that, he went downe of his horse, and drew out the sharpe thorn out of the lyons foote.\nTo go to hell after death; go (to heaven, purgatory, etc.); ~ wei, travel the path (to hell).\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)96 : Into helle þe holi gost he send…ant þider þou scalt wende.\nc1275 LSSerm.(Clg A.9)186/26 : Alle bac-biteres wendet to helle.\nc1300 SLeg.Cross (LdMisc 108)31 : He a-ros to liue; Þene fourteoþe dai þare-Afterward to heouene he wende.\na1350 Harrow.H.(Hrl 2253)248 : Ʒef vs grace to libbe & ende In þi seruice ant to heune wende.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)13/1 : Hit behouede þet alle wenten into helle and þere abyde þe guode ine zikere hope.\n1372 Als i lay vp-on (Adv 18.7.21)133 : To my fader I sal wende In myn manhed to heuene.\nc1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)1.117 : Alle þat wrong worchen wende þei schulen After heore deþ-day and dwellen with þat schrewe.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)643 : Al wer we dampned…To…wende to helle hete.\na1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)3622 : On þis wyse may þe saules þat wendes Til purgatory be helped thurgh fre[n]des.\nc1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)48 : What man, lered other lewed, That lovede commune profyt, wel ithewed, He shulde into a blysful place wende.\n?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Curates (Corp-C 296)153 : Þei…maken þe peple…to wende þe weie to helle whanne þei wenen to goo to heuene.\nc1440 HBk.GDei (Thrn)10/13 : Wafull wreche…þou wyendis to þe wafull dome þat he demes to wofull wreches.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)3 : Now gyneth the devel to wraththen him sore…whanne that oure lord to helle wente, and took owt Adam.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)441 : Eneas, besyde an yle, To helle wente, for to see His fader, Anchyses.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)145/20 : Þe kynge…vent to þe dewell as he seid.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11140 : He þat God troweþ noght…And deieþ so in þat entent And is so to helle went, For him is sorowe forto make.\nOf various abstractions: (a) of a sound, report, etc.: to travel, spread; spread throughout (a land) [quot. c1450(a1425)]; ben went, of a rumor or noise: have traveled (throughout a country); of words: be banished (from a land) [quot. a1393]; (b) of delight: to pass (through a mind); (c) of an action, event, etc.: to happen, occur; happen (that sth. is the case); ben went.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1579 : Þe word wide went sone þat William was heled.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.878 : Tho wordes moste I nedes hate; And wolde thei were…so ferr oute of londe went That I nevere after scholde hem hiere.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.2273 : The soun of it [fart] wol wende And eek the stynk vnto the spokes ende.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)2522 : The rumour and the noys is went Thorgh-oute Thebes.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1724 : He gan blowe her loos so clere In his golden clarioun That thrugh the world wente the soun.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)12683 : Þe word went all þat land how he his axhed hade.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)977 : Þei shullen preche þe trinite, And the noise of hem shal wende In eche countre to þe worldes ende.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)6399 : Þin honour shal wide wende; Euery man shal holde þe good and hende.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)1130 : Delit þe Lombe for to deuise Wyth much meruayle in mynde went.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)657 : I…fond hir wiþ hordom, Me to schame…Ihc habbe ʒou told hu hit is went.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Eccl.1.10 : It wente befor in worldis þe whiche weren beforn vs.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18789 : Godd for-bede sua þat it weind þat we vr fa mak of ur freind.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)37 : As wide as þe werd was went worde of þaire teching.\n(a) To pass (into or out of a state); also, enter (into an agreement); go (from woe to bliss, bliss to woe); ~ oute of minde; ~ to slep; ben went (to slep; (b) of a state or condition: to fall (upon sb.).\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)2/9 : Monie martyrs…wenden of þeos weanen to weole & to eche wunne, icrunet to Criste.\n?a1300(a1250) Harrow.H.(Dgb 86)250 : Þou, satanas, and alle þine Wenden ʒe sulen to helle pine.\nc1300 SLeg.Silv.(1) (LdMisc 108)23 : To-niʒht þou schalt i-wis In strongue deþe a-strangled [be] and wiende to þe pine of helle.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2896 : Ðin folc is more in sorwe went.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)640 : Wend now yn in-to þi lordes blis.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 18.3 : Jonathas forsoþe & dauyd wenten in to couenaunt of pes.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Par.23.3 : Þanne wente in couenaunt al þe multitude in þe hous of þe lord with þe king.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2692 : Our lauerd him went in-til his blis.\na1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)53 : Þai war went to [s]l[epe].\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)7/21 : For dreed sche had of dampnacyon…þis creatur went owt of hir mende.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)4/96 : Fra heuen are we heledande on all hande, To wo are we weendande, I warande.\na1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)3095 : Out off agu ʒyff he be went, He schal haue þertoo good talent.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)1106 : To wo þat is wers, wenden ʒe schulle…God…haþ jugged ʒou alle To lenge aftur ʒour lif in lastinge paine.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)55/28 : Vpon the morou anon Caiphas went to slepe.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)1288 : Whi made Gode man not to be Euere ʒonge and iolyf and of pouste…And at his deth to blisse haue went?\na1250(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Tit D.18)62/790 : Al þe weane & te wa wente up o þe unstrengðe of þet underue flesch.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)533 : Swilc woded wentem on, Golhed hunkinde he gunnen don.\nTo behave (in a certain way); ~ wei, pursue a way of life.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4063 : Ʒif we in þisse manere wendeþ, we ne fayleþ on none wyse.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)29222 : For-þi to weind þe seker wai I rede we be in penance ai.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)prol.178 : Vn-to vs her bokes represent With-out feynynge þe weie þat þei went.\n(1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)141 : He went swech weyis as were displesaunce Onto oure lord.\n(a) To set out with the intention of doing something, go out for the purpose of engaging in an activity, proceed to do something; also, betake oneself (to do sth.), undertake; ~ to; ben went; ~ afisheth (dauncinge, on huntinge, etc.), go fishing (dancing, hunting, etc.); ~ forth pleiinge, refl. disport oneself; (b) to busy oneself (with something); also, go on (an errand) [quot. a1400(a1325), 1st]; (c) with prep. phrases beginning with to, in-to, and til: ~ to (in-to) bataille, ~ til travail, ben went to dede of armes, etc., to go to a fight (work, etc.); ~ to mete, go to eat; ~ to reste, go to rest;—also refl.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)424/129 : His fischares wenden a-fischez.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)2179 : Hi…wende a-ffisscheþ.\nc1330 Orfeo (Auch)7/65 : Þis ich quen…went in an vndrentide To play bi an orchard-side.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.167 : He…feyned hym þat he wolde wende an hontynge.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.129 : At þe repayrynge of Seynt Petres chirche he wente to wiþ a mattok, and opened first þe erþe.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.276 : Grisilde…To fecchen water at a welle is went.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.174 : My wille is to wende…and welcome hem alle…Adam & Eue & other moo in helle.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1274 : As they on huntyng wente…he slough his broder.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.267 : Withinne the temple he wente hym forth pleyinge.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)3224 : In yvell tyme thou wentist to see The gardyne.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)4234 : Herre lymmus shokone euermore…For euer, where-euer þey hedone, þey wentone dauncynge.\na1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)918 : Waspasian was went to werry on þe Jewes.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2177 : To offire in þat oritorie with honour he wyndis.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)75/21 : Seint Petir went preching by alle the cuntree & teching the peple.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.297 : Alle women þat myʒtyn tokyn her tymbrys in her hondis and wentyn daunsynge & syngynge þe same song.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.189 : He cast of hys uestyment & wente to helpyn þe cite.\nc1500 Friar & B.(Rwl C.86)p.71 : The boye went pypyng þorow þe towne.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.130.1 : Lord, myn herte is not enhauncid…Ne I wente in grete þyngis.\nc1390 Susan.(Vrn)121 : Aftur myn oynement warliche ʒe weende…we wol wassche us Iwis.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13087 : Nu yee sal mine erand wend, Til þat gret lauerding iesu.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21843 : Ilk dai in werr we weind.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)13087 : Now shul ʒe on myn eronde wende.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)559 : Wawan schulde wende on þat ernde.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.2853 : No wyʒt schulde to no purpos wende In any mater for to make an ende.\na1425 Cursor (Glb E.9)27782 : Vnto no gude werk dar he wend, For drede þat he may noght mak end.\na1450 SLeg.MPChr.(StJ-C B.6)116 : Þou wendyst abouʒtte ambys aas; þi craft is þe benome.\na1450 SLeg.MPChr.(StJ-C B.6)2630 : Þei say qwere he was leyd & how he was þer wounde; þei wente abouʒt here oynementys til þe sunne went to grounde.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)95 : To batayl gan he wende.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.820 : We dronken and to reste wente echon.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4335 : The lyf of Ector sholde be lorn If thilke day he wente in to bataille.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)804 : I, without tariyng, Wente into the karolyng.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1585 : Who so wendes gret trauel til Salbe seruyd at þer souerans wil.\nc1450 Eglam.(Clg A.2)16 : To dede of armys he ys went.\na1500 Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)507 : From the oracle departyng, we turned to mete, And I sike in soule went me to Reste.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)2558 : Than comaund the kyng the courtte for to ryse; Askit water wightly, wentton [to] meyte.\n(a) To depart this life through death, die; ~ awei (hennes, hethen, etc.); ~ from (of, oute of) world, ~ of (oute of) lif, ~ to deth (ende); ben went; ~ to grave, die;—used refl.; ~ worldes wone, depart from the world, die; (b) of material goods: to perish; of the earth: pass away; of a town: cease to exist; ~ amis (awei, hennes, to nought); ben went awei; ~ oute, of candlelight: go out; (c) of an abstraction, a condition, etc.: to come to an end, cease; also, be lost; ~ awei; ben went (awei; (d) ben went (awei, of a plant: to die; of a physical ability: fail.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7620 : Læt nu þin þeoww Ut off þiss weorelld wendenn.\na1250(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Mdst A.13)168 : Not no man þe time…hwanne he scal heþen wenden.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)864 : Ich rede þi þat men bo ʒare…Þat fundeþ to þan houen kinge, Vor nis no man wit ute sunne, Vor þi he mot ar he wende honne.\na1300 Leuedi sainte (Add 27909)7 : Ich eom i-bunde sore mid wel feole seonne…dai and nicht ich fundie to wendende heonne.\nc1300 Assump.Virg.(1) (Cmb Gg.4.27)116/202 : Hu schulle we liue wiþ outen þe…Reu of vs; ne wend þou noʒt.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)513 : Or enoch wente werldes wune, Matusale was boren, is sune.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3884 : Aaron ðo wente of liwe ðor; Eleazar, is sune…Was mad bissop.\n?c1335 Þe king of heuen (Hrl 913)p.123 : He ne þenchith noʒt in is end Þat he sal of þis world wend.\na1350 When y se blosmes (Hrl 2253)49 : At oure lyues ende When whe shule wende, Iesu, vs vndefong!\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.171 : Þai þat wenden [vr. wenten] out of þis lijf þorouʒ soþfast þouʒth & repentaunce & sorouʒ for her synnes, her soules shullen regne wiþ Iesu crist.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1853 : Þe cherl wende ful wel have went to deþe.\nc1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)1.152 : For þe same Mesure þat ʒe Meten A-mis oþer elles, Ʒe schul be weyen þer-with whon ʒe wenden hennes.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)605 : God ʒyue vs grace, or we be went, To kepe þys fyrst comaundment.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)761 : When I wente fro yor worlde wete He calde me to hys bonerte.\na1425(?a1350) 7 Sages(2) (Glb E.9)1884 : At þe last sho died and went oway.\na1450(?c1350) Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)469 : Lorde, to wende I am prest; Lo now I am gone.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)404 : The worthieste of this werlde went to his ende.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)653 : Now I go; to graue moste me wende; Dethe dynges one my dore; I dare no lengare byde.\nc1450 Okure þrow (Eg 2810)p.231 : Bote he do he mon be schente Wen he of þis word is wente.\nc1475 Kynge of grace (Brm)18 : Lord! for-ʒeue vs owre mysse-dede…For we wote neuer wan we xall wynde.\na1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)1246 : But atte last, or ye hens weende, Bi martirdam ye shal make an eende.\na1500(a1450) St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)928 : In hertt was heuy all þat herde Þat Robertt weynd suld off þis werlde.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)67/722 : Þis worlt went [Roy: weint] awei as þe weater þe eorneð.\na1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)54 : Vi ne auedestu þe biþout þat…þine uerkes hal solde uende to nout.\n?c1335 Þe king of heuen (Hrl 913)p.124 : To world is wel nab þou no triste; Hit went awei, so doþ þe miste.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.3025 : The grete townes se we wane and wende; Than ye se that al this thyng hath ende.\na1400 Cato(3) (Frf 14)36 : If richesse come þe rife, in ending of þi life…spende þou fulle hertli in time and rit largeli: þi gift wiþ þe weindis.\nc1400 ME Verse in Anglia 92p.76 : Whan þey brenne as þo fyyr, þanne eerthe schal henus weende.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)180 : Ten of his hors slowgh he [devil]…whanne the goodman wiste…that al his good wente so amys, anon ryht angry ful sone he was.\na1450 St.Etheldr.(Fst B.3)1014 : Þe leyʒt of þe candelle went ouʒt…Þat he hym-self sawe no-thyng.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)379/388 : This wykyd warld away is wente.\nc1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)53/911-13 : Þi sorwe schal wende Or seue ʒeres ende; Wanne hit is wente, Sire king, ʒef me mi rente.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 16.19 : The lordis of hir, seynge for the hope of hir wynnyng wente a wey, catchinge Poul and Silas ledden…to the princes.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1640 : Al rightwisnes awai es went.\na1400 ME Verse in Anglia 92p.59 : Þe riches worschipe went sone a-way; Hyt fliþt hys mayster euery day.\na1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)18/9 : When all yowre wele es went, Ʒowre wo wakkins ful wide.\na1450(?a1349) ?Rolle Luf es lyf (Cmb Dd.5.64)23 : Wa [vr. þat synne] fra me away war went and comne war my covaytyng, If þat my sawle had herd and hent þe sang of þi lovyng.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)198/155 : Þat I loued most is fro me gone, My dere brothir…Lazar…My welthe is wente for euere!\n?a1500 This is goddis (Lamb 306)44 : Thy strenkythe, thy wytt A-way is went!\n1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)47/34 : Irrecuperable joy is went, and anoy endless is entred.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)8118 : As thy fall and þi faith is foule loste, And þi worship is went & wastid for euer, Of shame & shenship shent bes þou neuer.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)11/46 : Now sene þe erthe þus ordand es…to growe with gres, and wedis þat sone away bese went.\na1500(?c1414) ?Brampton PPs.(1) (Sln 1853)p.16 : My myght and syʒt awey is went.\nOf time, a period of time: to elapse; ~ biforen (oute); ben went, have passed; ben went awei (oute, til ende).\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Esth.3.8 : Þe twelfþe monyþ wente out þat is cleped Adar.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.13.12 : The nyʒt wente byfore, forsothe the day schal neiʒe.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pri.(Manly-Rickert)B.1730 : I wol do my diligence To konne it al er Cristemasse be went.\na1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)6/191 : Þe first day till end was went.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2634 : I wolde it dawed, and were now day, And that the nyght were went away.\nc1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)17071 : Terme is went out of the trewe, And that may men of Troye rewe.\na1450 St.Etheldr.(Fst B.3)14 : After þe Incarnacyon forsothe hit was Foure hondrethe ʒere fyfty & fyue weren went, Or duke Hengestys hadde myʒt.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)4586 : Winter was went & windes were lithe.\n(a) To issue forth (from an instrument, a part of the body); of an edict: issue (from a ruler); ~ oute; (b) ~ oute, of brain tissue: to gush out; (c) to dispatch (sb. or sth.), send; ~ awei.\nc1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)34/21 : Þonne he on rade wæs, ðonne wende of ðæs horses muðe se liʒ þet mon mihte ofer ane mile iseon.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)24/18 : His bodi to-bearst o-midhepes otwa ant þet eadi meiden allunge unmerret, wið-uten eauer-euch wem, wende ut of his [dragon’s] wombe.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 2.1 : A maundement went out fro Cesar August…that al the world schulde be discryued.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.1.16 : A swerd sharp on bothe sijdis wente out of his mouth.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1684 : Al the breth that wente Out of his trumpes mouth it smelde As men a pot of bawme helde Among a basket ful of roses.\na1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)514/673 : Off mother wombe or that he wente, I wos hym within.\n(1433) RParl.4.447b : John Carpenter…smote the said Isabell his wiff on the hede, that the brayne wende oute, and with his knyff yaf her many other dedly woundes.\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)166 : Blesset be ihesu crist þat me bote sende, ant is holi angel to me þat he wende.\n?c1335 Þe grace of god (Hrl 913)87 : God is prophetis to ham send…As bi Moyses þat am wend, Aʒe þe propheci ʒit isinid.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)10/42 : When þer frutys is fully fynde…Þane þe wedris wete and wynde oway I will it wende full wyght.\nIn selected fig. phrases: ~ ayen (ayenes), ben went ayenes, to oppose (sb.); of a sentence: condemn (sb.) [quot. c1440]; ~ bi (over), transgress (a rule); ~ in ayen, engage in (a plot) against (sb.); ~ togederes, form a coalition, unite; ~ with, keep company with (sb.).\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)23/13 : Ða wente forð mid me ðe ilche gode wille…ðe godd hafde iscapen on ðe.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)22/146 : Ʒef hit went aʒein us, ne schal þe na teone ne tintreohe trukien.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)2540 : Ʒeo beoþ mine leofue sones; wendeþ to-gaderes.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 34.8 : Who is a man as is Job…þat goþ with men werkynge wickidenesse & wendeþ with vn-pitous men.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.7.5 : Euel counseil he wente in aʒen þee.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)4330 : Ful gretly shul þey hem repente whan þe dome ys aʒens hem went.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)4.76 : Wisdome and witte þanne wenten togideres, And toke Mede myd hem, mercy to winne.\na1425(?a1350) Nicod.(1) (Glb E.9)532 : Who makes þam kyng, withowten wene ogains cesar þai wende.\na1425 Adam & E.(4) (Bod 596)352/42 : Ʒoure fader & I wente ouer the comaundementes of god.\nc1440 Tales Contrition (Thrn)7/12 : Sentence of dampnacyone Felle one me & wente agaynes mee.\nc1450(?a1370) Winner & W.(Add 31042)226 : Witt wiendes me with, and wysses me faire.\n?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)7167 : Þair ordure reule þai went bathe by, And leuyd our dishonestly.\n(a) To dwell; be (in a certain place); live (in woe, peace, etc.); ~ hole; ~ wepinge; ben went alonde; (b) to be (in a certain condition of dress), be dressed (in a certain fashion); ~ bar-fot, ~ naked, etc. [difficult to distinguish from, e.g., sense 2a.(a)]; (c) to be pregnant (with child); (d) of gold: to be sold (by weight); (e) to transpire, happen, come about; ~ a-right (wel); ben went.\n?a1300(a1250) Harrow.H.(Dgb 86)30 : Þritti winter…Haui ben wend alonde her.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)14251 : Martha was neuer so faine, þan weint scho wepand him againe.\na1425(?a1350) Nicod.(1) (Glb E.9)476 : We war vnclene, ʒe ken; hale thurgh his word we wend.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)295/34 : Be presumpcion is many disseyuede, and so they wend in myrkenes thorough theyre vnknawynge.\n(a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)240/26 : Crist, whil he went here, was God and man.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)201/1574a : Better is in pees and rest to wende, Thanne leve in werre with-outyn end.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)2028 : Wyth hare chauntement To warm me hadde þey y-went, Jn wo to welde and wende.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9091 : Þe soule and þe body, As þei here in þe worlde wente, Shal neuere aʒein to hem be sente.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3319 : With Poules wyndow coruen on his shoos In hoses rede he wente fetisly.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)135/6 : Hou plenteuous was hure wepinge, þat sufficede to weshe þe fet of a pore man þat wente bare fot.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)6 : Of bodi wente þei bar wiþoute any wede.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)34 : We…semen ful bare; Nouht welde we now, but naked we wende.\na1400 Lullay lullay litel child þu (Hrl)p.211 : Þu lytel chyld…Þou art bycome meck and myld; Wyþ þe, Marye, þat wente wiþ chyld.\nc1460 Cursor (LdMisc 416)11010 : Bothe modirs þat were myld Went bothe at oons with child.\nc1450 Brut-1431(1) (Eg 650)448/18 : In þat tyme þe gold of þe realme went by weght; And euery man had a payr ballaunce And weghttes in hys sleve for þe gold.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9400 : Cuþeþ to day ʒoure manhede þat it mowe wende To ʒou & to ʒoure children to honour.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3405 : If so be the game wente aright, She sholde slepen in his arm al nyght.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.4450 : If myn happ were so wel went…Me thenkth I were a goddeshalf.\na1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)2635 : I see the wounde; hyt hys so wente, Thourow thyn clerkys thow wil be schent.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)69/28 : All thyngis went wele.\nc1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)739 (2nd occurrence) : To the felde I wyll wende how hit wende.\nTo extend (from one place to another).\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6 : Fram souþe to norþ he is long eiʒte hondred Mile & tuo hundred mile brod fram est to west to wende.\n(a) To move on an axis, rotate, spin; also, fig. revolve (sth. in one’s thoughts), consider [1st quot.]; (b) to swirl (a garment in blood); roll (a stone from a place); also, roll away (a stone); (c) fig. to embroil (sb. in sth.), involve [cp. winden v.(1) 4.(d)].\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)52/4 : Hwen he is forðe, ha went in hire þoht ofte swucche wordes.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)180/28 : Hi byeþ ase þe wedercoc þet is ope þe steple, þet him went mid eche wynde.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1649 : For ghe hem wulde wattre ðer Iacob wið hire wente ðat ston, And let hire sep to water gon.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1967 : Ðo nomen he ðe childes srud…In kides blod he wenten it.\na1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)102/16 : Þe ston were went fram þe dore of þe monument.\na1500 Det peruynkkle (MdstCKS U182.Z1)p.257 : We han be wendyt yn gret tresoun.\n(a) To change position, move, shift; toss and turn; refl. writhe; also, wallow [last quot.]; (b) ~ abouten, to brandish (a sword); ~ to and fro, of a sword: flicker back and forth; (c) to bend or twist (sth.); also, disturb (one’s thought); ppl. went, overturned; (d) to turn (a corpse) over; turn (a page); page through (a massbook); also, plow up (a crop, the earth).\nc1225 Body & S.(2) (Wor F.174)62/12 : [D]eaþ mid his pricke pineþ þene licame; he walkeþ and wendeþ and woneþ [oftes]iþes.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8938 : Heo seiden þe hit iseʒen…þat ofte he hine wende swulc hit a wurem weore.\na1350 Bytuene mersh (Hrl 2253)22 : Nihtes when y wende ant wake, forþi myn wonges waxeþ won.\nc1450(?a1370) Winner & W.(Add 31042)248 : Thou haste waltered and went and wakede alle þe nyghte.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.10 : Closid in a narow denne…he ne myghte torne hym-self ne wende.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)2905 : Ne myght he noght sogourn; here on bakke laide, efte the bely vppon, Torning And wendyng euer enuiron.\na1500 St.Brendan Conf.(Lamb 541)15/242 : I dwelle and waltre þere [in sin], as a fatte sowe in hoot somer turneþ and weendiþ hir in þe foule stynkinge slouʒ.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1700 : Arcite and Palamon…foghten breme as it were boles two; The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro.\na1500(a1400) Libeaus (Lamb 306)529 : His bronde aboute he wende; All that he hit he shende.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1149 : Wið wines drinc he wenten is ðhogt, So ðat he haueð ðe dede wrogt, And on eiðer here a knaue bi-geten.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8197 : Þey [dragons] hadde longe to-gyder smyten…Wyppyng wyþ wenges, ouer-wepen & went, Cracchyng wiþ clawes, rubbed, & brent.\nc1450 Yale 163 Cook.Recipes (Yale 163)141.91/3 : Late a crane blod…Wend the necke about the spite.\na1475 Leve lystynes (Brog 2.1)p.33 : I bow hym [penis], I bend hym, I stroke hym, I wend hym…ʒett he may not serve.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)161 : Hie wenden þe eorðe and wurpen god sad þaronne.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)24 : Laʒamon leide þeos boc & þa leaf wende.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4628 : Hamun ferde ʒeon þat wæl & wende þa deden.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1326 : On ape mai a boc bihalde An leues wenden.\nc1300 Horn (LdMisc 108)24/451 : Doune he fel yswowe; Hor[n] hire ofte wende, And in hys armes trende.\nc1300 SLeg.Fran.(1) (LdMisc 108)164 : Þe masse-bok he wende; Þo cam he opon þis godspel.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)147/322 : A staf he vond þat sserp was atte ende; Þer wiþ he dalf, ac lite he miʒte þe eorþe þer wiþ wende.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.13 : Now tyme and houre Is hey to mowe, And yf the rayn bishoure, Wende hit not til hit be parfit drie.\nIn phrase: ~ doun, to overthrow (a city).\na1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)9.6 : Faes waned ofe swerde in ende, And þair cites doune dide þou wende.\n(a) To change position so as to face (toward sth.); also fig.; also, take an adverse stance (against sb.); ~ awei, turn around or away;—also refl.; ~ ayen (onyen), turn around;—also refl.; (b) to change the position of (sth., a part of the body); also fig.; ~ awei.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)33/26 : He wænde eft ongean, þære he heo funde.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)71/23 : Se ðe doð his hand to ðere sull of godspelle…and forlat at ðe woreld and loceð abach, wændinde to ðe woreld, he nis naht wurde [read: wurðe] heuene riche.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)145/5 (2nd occurrence) : Se ðe want his earen fram godes laʒhe, alswa wile godd wanden fram him, þanne he him awht besekeð.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)147/19 : He wante þo to ðe wauʒe, and dede þat betste.\na1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)23/14 : A eue, wendte awei; þu worpest eien o þi deað.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)797 : He wende on-ʒean sone, & he ohtliche feaht.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1119 : Lotes wif wente hire a-gon.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)13/18 : Se ðe smit under ða eare, want to ðat oðer.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)127/30 : Se ðe smit þe under ðat eare, þole hit for mine luue, and wand him to þat oðer.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)145/5 (1st occurrence) : Se ðe want his earen fram godes laʒhe, alswa wile godd wanden fram him, þanne he him awht besekeð.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)221/7 : Þe wel blaweð went te nearewe of þe horn to his ahne muð.\nc1230 Ancr.(Corp-C 402)59/17 : Þer aʒein ʒeoueð godd ower heorte…wrenchen aweiward, wenden þe schuldre, keaste þe heaued swa þet godd heateð hire & mon hire scarneð.\na1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)27/19 : Louerd…wend awei mine eien vrom þe worldes dweole, & hire fantesme.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2138 : Rith also he stoden alle so, And his bac was toward hem wend.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2613 : Egipte wimmen comen ner, And boden ðe childe letten [read: tetten] ðer, Oc he wente it awei wið rem.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3951 : He…wente is herte on werre ðhogt: Wicke giscing it haued al wrogt.\n(a) To go in a certain direction; of a river: flow; ~ asonder (atwinne), take different directions, part; (b) to cause (sb., an animal, the wind) to take a certain course, direct; also, pull (a bridle, sail) in a certain direction; also, aim (a blow) [last quot.]; (c) to direct (one’s attention or energy to sth.).\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4690 : Þe wind wende forð-riht fromward þan stronde in-to þissen londe.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14929 : Þet water Desse wendeð into þere sæ.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1759 : Asunder þann þei went; Alisaundrine…morned neiʒh for mad for Meliors.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.1157 : In vertu…They lyuen alle and neuere asonder wende Til deeth departeth hem.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1170 : He cam ther hym to bigile…er that they wente atwynne.\nc1200 Wor.Serm.in EGSt.7 (Wor Q.29)68 : For þa heo veren nakede and of hingrede…and heo al man cun to helle venden et heore liues ende.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)10/19 : Tu ne maht…wið nan worldlich þing wenden me ne wrenchen of þe wei þet ich am in bigunne to ganne.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)10453 : Heo wenden heore lofes, & liðen toward londe.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13256 : Bos…his hors wende…and mid alle his mitte teh to ane cnihte.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3958 : Ðis asse wurð so sore of-dred…Sellic ðogte balaam…And bet and wente it to ðe sti.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8402 : Vr louerd þat aʒen hom was bigan þe winde wende.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2152 : Bi þat þe wyʒe in the wod wendez his brydel.\na1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)3183 : Alisaunder wiþ outen asoyne Hadde want his ost to Macedoyne.\nc1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)2837 : They made hir takelyng redy, & wend þe saill a-cros.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10646 : Al hir might and all hir tent To godds seruis had sco went.\n(a) To change course or direction; also in fig. context; also, meander; ~ ayen; ben went; ppl. wendinge, meandering; (b) to change spiritual or moral direction; turn (to or away from God, to religion, from evil, etc.); also, turn away from (God’s law), reject [quot. c1300 SLeg.Jas]; ben went; (c) to change the spiritual direction of (sb.), convert; cause the conversion of (sb., oneself, someone’s mind, etc. to or from Christianity, God, etc.); (d) to switch allegiance away (from sb., from sb. to sb. else); also, rally (to sb.); also, divert (wisdom to good use).\nc1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Evang.(Bod 343)16/24 : Þet water sonæ wende of þam fixnoðe.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)21 : Þe ssipes mowe come fram þe se & wende And bringe alonde god inoʒ.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)179 : Fos me clupeþ þilke wei þat bi mani a god toun deþ wende.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)252a/b : Of thus y-sette a fuyre comeþ wel smellynge smoke schape as a ʒerde and smale byneþe and swithe meuable and wendynge.\na1400 Cursor (Frf 14)1867 : Agayne he dide þe waters wende; þe ship on lande bigan to lende.\nc1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)703 : And sente…For to seke Gamelyn…To telle him tydynges how þe wynd was went.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.2604 : Nygard hertis be oft sythes blynde…Þat liche an ebbe sodeynly wil wende.\nc1450(c1375) Chaucer Anel.(Benson-Robinson)187 : His newe lady holdeth him so narowe Up by the bridil at the staves ende…And as her liste, made him turne or wende.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)209 : Holi boc clepeð þis woreld wildren, for þe fewe men þe wunieð [ð]erone, þe ben temed and wend to godes hond, his wille to don.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)19/14 : Wandeð to me…ʒie ðe berð iwant fram me, ðurh dieules lare.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)59/31 : Wænd fro euel wune, and do god.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)39/404 : We…makien ham to þenchen þohtes þer to ʒeines & wendeð to oðer willes þet ham wulleð hearmin.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)38/258 : Ha wulleð alle wende to Criste.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)49/29 : Eauer se þes wittes beoð mare isprengde utward, se ha leasse wendeð [Nero: wenðet] inward.\nc1300 SLeg.Jas.(LdMisc 108)149 : He heom brouʒte to strong dethþe oþur don heom heore lawe wende.\nc1300 SLeg.Patr.(LdMisc 108)57 : Wend into religion and bi-lef þare to þine liues ende.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1705 : He saw him so fayr and hende; Fro him ne mithe his herte wende, Ne fro him, ne fro his wif.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3510 : Oc horedom ðat ðu ne do; Ne wend no lecherie to.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3113 : In wrechedom er now all went.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14839 : Nu has he yow scent, Queþer ani of vrs be til [Frf: wiþ; Trin-C: to] him went.\nc1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)403 : He wyl wende of his wodschip and his wrath leue, And for-gif vus þis gult.\na1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)533 : Þei þat wol noʒt to him [Jesus] wende Schulle be lore withouten ende.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6185 : They ben fro clene Riligioun went.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)873 : Wend þou not, for hard ne nesch, Efter þe ʒarnynges of þi flesch.\na1450 LDirige(1) (Dgb 102)398 : He wente wronge; In vertues he nolde abyde.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)531 : To couetyse he xall wende…And onto lechery…Than am I seker þe Soule ys dede.\nc1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Evang.(Bod 343)14/28 : Heo wændon ða heoræ mod to Gode.\nc1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Nicod.(Bod 343)8/7 : Þe Halʒæ Gast…mæʒ onlihten þæs monnes mod þe he wyle & wenden hit to gode.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)132/29 : We wenden us nu to þam beteræ & cerræn to ure Drihten.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)184 : He shall newenn cumenn forþ To turrnenn & to wendenn Þe suness…Till þeʒʒre faderr herrte.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6576 : Sume off ure little flocc…Hemm wendenn oþerr stund fra Crist.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)33/17 : Ʒewerʒed bie ðe mann…þe want his herte and his ʒeþanc more to mannes seruise ðanne te godes.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)53/7 : Soðliche berð ðis ilche trew ðat wastme ðe maniʒe want to liue.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)65/15 : Sume…bieð swiðe wise ihealden ðurh ðessere godes ʒiue and want hem seluen and iec sumen oðre te michele hearme.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)52/13 : For alle ondsweres wendeð ow frommard him.\na1250 Orison Lord (Lamb 487)185 : Wend me…heorte-liche and turn me allunge to þe.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)506 : He sal cumen or domes-day And wenden iewes…To ðe wittenesse of iesus crist.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)693 : Fendes fleiðing wex wið-al To wenden men fro godes reed.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)29/15 : Þet is hardnesse of herte huanne man is y-hert ine his kueadnesse þet me ne may him wende and naʒt ne wyle hym amendi.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)90/3 : Þet byeþ porueyonces of bodye, and slaʒþe to þolye, helpe poure, to wende þane zenuolle.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)229/3 : Þe doʒtren…of babilonie…zecheþ hire blisse and hit ssel wende ham in-to confuzion and to ssame eurelestinde.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)23049 : Þai…Went [Göt: weint] þaim in to religiun…For to beserue vr lauerd dright.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)27748 : It wentes man fra godd his will.\n1123 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1123 : Willelm of Romare and fela oðre wendan fram him & helden here castles him togeanes.\n?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : Þa was Engleland suythe to deled; sume helden mid te king & sume mid þemperice…& hi of Normandi wenden alle fra þe king to þe eorl of Angæu, sume here þankes & sume here unþankes.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14517 : Caric his Bruttes gadere…and him to wende al þat was on londe for rihtere neode.\nc1300 SLeg.Kath.(LdMisc 108)16 : Þov scholdest þi wisdom and þi wit to some guode wende.\n(a) To return to a place, make one’s way back to a certain location;—also refl.; return (to sb., the earth, etc.); also fig.; ~ ayen (ayen-ward, onyen, etc.); ben went ayen, of the planets: have made a heavenly circuit; (b) to return (to a topic, narrative, etc.); ~ ayen; (c) to cause (insults, trickery) to redound (upon sb.); (d) ~ ayen, to counterattack; (e) ~ rigge, to take flight, retreat.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)86/20 : Wende þe gast to Gode þe hine ær sende.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)124/19 : We sceolen æfre ʒemunen þene ures heonen-siþes & we næfre æft ne wendæþ hider on worlde.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3406 : Þeʒʒ wenndenn hemm onnʒæn Wiþþ rihhte læfe o Criste.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)89/22 : Wændeð aʒean, wændeð aʒean and fareð hom.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)147/25 : Wand aʒean…and sai to þe kinge: Vidi lacrimam tuam.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13233 : Wendeð a-ʒæin, cnihtes, and werieð eo mid fihtes.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)382/212 : We schullen…for þe bi-seche Þat þi soule wende to eorþe a-ʒein, þi lijf for-to eche.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1356 : Abraham, riche of welðe and wale, Wente a-gen in-to manbre dale.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1782 : Laban hem bliscede, & on nigt Wente a-gen-ward or it was ligt.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1904 : Hear haued moyses ouer-gon, Ðor-fore he wended eft a-gon.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)242/23 : Þe ilke ymage þanne of zalt ssel y[e]ue wyt and onderstondinge and uorbysne to ham of religion þet habbeþ uorlete þe wordle þet hy ne wende ayen to þan þet hi habbeþ y-lete.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1550 : In sua lang time…þe planetes all ar went again.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12809 : Yee sal gain to yur maisturs wend And tell þam soth.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14946 : Wat yee, breþer, qui…I weind again sua snell.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)637 : Thei wentt wher thei had wonnyd be forne.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.145 : Qhanne þe sonne rysyʒt, þey wendyn aʒen to here dennys.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)47/2 : Ic wile wænden to ðe hali mihtes alswo ich ær hadde iʒunnen.\nc1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)4819 : Now wende we oʒain to our spelle Þat ʒe me herd er þan telle Of Gij and Tirri.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2965 : To the poynt than wol I wende And maken of my longe tale an ende.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)313 : Of þam I spek no fare, Bot to þe first I wend o-gayn.\na1250(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Tit D.18)9/93 : Se sone ha ʒeald ham swuche ʒainclappes & wende hare wiheles, up on ham seluen.\na1250(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Tit D.18)23/296 : He bihet to meden ham…ʒif ha þeos modi motild ouercume mihten, & wenden þe hokeres of his heaðene godes up on hire heaued.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)923 : Þa Troynisce men mid strengðe wenden aʒein.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)136/24-5 : Ah þer hit teleð þet israel wende sone þe rug, & weren fowr þusent iþe fluht sariliche isleine; Ne wende ʒe nawt te rug, mine leoue sustren, ah wiðstondeð þe feondes ferd.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)272 : Þa Grickes…wenden him þeo rugges; flowen haʒe men.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13886 : Romleoden wenden rug to þan feohten.\nOf a dream: to be realized; of a habit: result in (a consequence).\nc1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)39/679 : Þi sweuen schal wende, Oþer sum Man schal vs schende.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)6/30 : Þe wone is kueaduol and may wel wende to zenne dyadlich, bote yef him ne loki.\n(a) To be appropriated (for a purpose); also, be controlled (by sb.), belong (with sb.); (b) to bring (sth. into one’s possession).\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)7662 : Þare mani a man fel vnder schild, Bot wid dauid went þe feld.\n(1437) Invent.Q.Katherine in Sus.AC 37 (Add 32645)174 : The said gowne was fourred with a lytil fourrure of ermynes withouten slyves and to the performyng of the said fourrure went iii tyrys of the surcot.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)573 : Thei asked whiche were the beste knyghtes, owther the rounde table or the Quenes knyghtes, and the kynge seide that thei were all the Quenes, ffor the rounde table wente all by hir.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)11109 : He wolde in-to Irlonde, wenden al þat kine-lond to his æhʒere hond.\n(a) To change in state or condition; change from one state, condition, etc. (into another); also, of a state or condition: change (into another); (b) to effect change [quot. a1325]; change the state or condition of (sth.); change (a certain state, condition, etc. into another); also, alter (a state); (c) ~ on fir (a blase), to catch on fire, burn.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)29/14 : All ðat euel ðe mai wanden te michele gode.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)101/23 : Ðenc…whaðer hit wile bien gode icweme…oðer ðe beheue oðer ðine nexte to none harme ne wande.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)103/7 : All hit want ðe to ʒode ðat tu for godes luue þolest.\nc1330 KTars (Auch)55/927 : His care went to game.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)62/15 : He miswent and went to þe worse half.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.591 : He hath his prophecie send…Hou that this world schal torne and wende Till it be falle to his ende.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3564 : His blode…wexus dri and cald, Til vnwelth windes [Frf: wendis] al his wald.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.202 : Wo in-to wel mowe wende atte laste.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)7/33 : Medsceattes…ablændeð wisra manna geðancas & wændeð rihtwisra word.\n?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : He…plantede winiærd & makede mani weorkes & wende þe tun betere þan it ær wæs.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)31/12 : He wile þane lichame of ure eadmodnesse in to michele brihtnesse wanded, ðat he scal scinen swa briht swa sunne.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)81/5 : Wa ʒeu ðe…wændeð ðat rihte te wrohʒe and ðat wohʒe te rihte.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)55/22 : Hu sweteliche þi spus spekeð & cleopeð þe to him se luueliche þrefter hu he went te lof, & spekeð swiðe grimliche.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1464 : Þat child bi me hit under stond An his un red to red wend.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3943 : Ne mai ic wenden her bi-neðen: Godes wurd is cumen als it is queden.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)28/6 : Al þet he yziʒþ oþer yherþ, he went hit to kueade.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)60/32 : Hi alle…wendeþ to guode al þet þe guodeman deþ oþer zayþ.\na1400 ME Verse in Anglia 92p.68 : To sorwe and wo oure murþe is went.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)3.280 : So is þis worlde went wiþ hem þat han powere.\na1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)492/29 : His wykydnes he wolde not wende.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.190 : Al þe cite and þe buschopys paleys wentyn on fyr.\na1500 Methodius(3) (Stw 953)950 : Ihesu cryst…xall come with sweche a lyte as all þe ward went on a blese.\n(a) To undergo transmutation from one substance (into another);—also refl.; also, change (to a different characteristic or property); (b) to transmute (one substance into another), change; change the physical characteristics of (sth.); ppl. went, of a person: changed (into sth. else); (c) to take on different (features); switch (garments).\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)86/6 : Heo [soul] ut gæð, he went al to stence & to þam ylce duste þe of isceapen wæs.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)113/11 : He…Makeð him swiðe sturne & went te [Nero: to þene] grimme toð.\na1250 Mon may longe (Mdst A.13)3 : Fair weder ofte him went to rene.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)321 : Up he steg…And…Wente in-to a wirme, and tolde eue a tale.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)17/1 : He is ine grat peril to huam alle triacle went in to uenym.\na1450(a1400) Medit.Pass.(2) (Add 11307)2090 : Siþþe þat Crist…Tok of hure his body…Hure body was of þe same kynde—To wermes mete hou myʒte it wende?\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)153/35 : Thow arte Erthe and into Erthe thow shalte wende.\na1300 Haly thomas (Jes-O 29)6 : Vre dryhtin…water wende to win.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)753 : Men calið it ðe dede se…For mannes sinne ðus it is went, Brent wið brimfir, sunken and shent.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1120 : Sone ghe [Lot’s wife] stod, wente in-to a ston.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)10066 : Of þe brede, þurgh sacrament To flesshe and blode hyt ys alle went.\na1425 *Treat.Uroscopy (Wel 225)348/5235 : Synochus is evermare caused…when þe blud is went, turnyd, & changyt of hys awne kynd into fylth & corrupcion.\na1500(a1400) Libeaus (Lamb 306)2104 : Thorowe ther chauntement To a worme they had me went.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)57/31 : Sume…wandeð here claðes and naht here þeawes.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)33/343 : He wið þet ilke feng to hwenden heowes ant warð swuch as he wes vnhwiht of helle.\n(a) To change in intention or behavior; (b) to adjust (someone’s or one’s own thinking, attitude, etc.); also, cause (sb.) to think or feel differently [quot. ?a1300].\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)168 : Ne lete neuer todai myne herte wende.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)273/68 : Gwisse, of youre wayes to be wendand Itt langis to oure lawes.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)11/119 : Affrican feng eft on & to fondin ongon ʒef he mahte eanis weis wið olhnunge wenden hire heorte.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4407 : Nu ich wulle wende mi mod.\n?a1300 Sirith (Dgb 86)151 : Dreri-mod he…þoute boþe niʒt and dai Hire al for to wende.\nc1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)998 : Alle we worþez i-brouʒt to nouʒte, bote þov þi þouʒt wende.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3873 : He smot ðor on ðe ston And miste…An-oðer siðe he went is ðogt Betre and softere.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)4017 : He…wende wenden godes ðogt, Oc al he swinkeð him for nogt.\na1325 SLeg.Blase (Corp-C 145)144 : Þe Iustice…bad him onury hore godes and is þoʒt sone wende.\nc1330 Otuel (Auch)590 : Ʒef þou wolt holden þat þou me het…For soþe, þan is mi wille went.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.2248 : If hire lord his herte wente To love in eny other place, [etc.].\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13282 : Neuer siþen went þai þair mode, For þam thoght þair change gode.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.194 : My broþer…Is riche of tenement, his sonnes strong & stith, þer wille wille not be went.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)7807 : His wille he went, & after Hengist his lettre sent.\na1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)1102 : Hast þou for slowþe I-be so feynt þat al þy wylle has be weynt And soʒt no þynge elles but lust & ese?\na1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)1485 : The emperours thout was went And the childe to prison sent.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)273/67 : Mi lorde, he tolde nevir tale þat to me was tendand, But with wrynkis and with wiles to wend me my weys.\n(a) To translate (sth.) into another language; translate (sth. into English); (b) to change (a name); also [2nd quot.], ?change the order of words; ?restyle something; (c) to alter the import of (a word).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.113 : Icc till Ennglissh hafe wennd Goddspelless hallʒhe lare.\nc1225 Sanctus beda (Wor F.174)7 : He was bocare & þe bec wende: Genesis, Exodus, Vtronomius, Numerus, Leuiticus.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3553 : Oðeræ þe uncuðe weoren…wenden heore [boroughs’] nomen.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)6566 : Be it latyn, frensh, or our tonge to-bore, ho it metre will…Be it in balede, uers, Rime, or prose, He most torn and wend metrely to close.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.522 : Sche ne mai…speke a word, ne ones loke, That he ne wol it wende and croke And torne after his oghne entente.\na1450 SLeg.MPChr.(StJ-C B.6)1648 : Ne myʒt þou not þat wurd wende: þe deuele is in þe wol breme.\nIn surnames and street names.\n(1256) Nickname in LuSE 55186 : Will. Wendut.\n(1293) in Ekwall Street-Names Lond.()101 : Wendageyneslane.\n(1302) in Sundby Dial.Wor.()59 : Joh. Wendout.\n(1324) Nickname in LuSE 55186 : Will. Wendout.\n(1332) Nickname in LuSE 55186 : Hugh Wendowai.\n(1339) Will Court Hust.(Gldh)1.439 : Wandayeneslane.\n(1379) Nickname in LuSE 55186 : Joh. Wendoght.\n(1382) in Ekwall Street-Names Lond.()144 : Wyndegoslane.\n(1422-3) in Ekwall Street-Names Lond.()145 : Wyndagayngooslane.


met-ō “reap”, messu-ī, -messum; mol-ō “grind”, molu-ī, moli-tum; occul-ō “hide”, occulu-ī, occul-tum; pōn-ō “put”, posu-ī, posi-tum; ser-ō “entwine”, seru-ī, ser-tum; stert-ō “snore”, stertu-ī, ─ ; strep-ō “sound”, strepu-ī, ─ ; tex-ō “weave”, texu-ī, tex-tum; trem-ō “tremble”, tremu-ī, ─ ; uom-ō “vomit”, uomu-ī, ─ . “the perfect in -uī had a great success: in the late adge, it replaced some old lengthened or sigmatic perfect: arduī, leguī, reguī instead of arsī¸ lēgī, rēxī” (Ernout, 19533, p. 208). perfectum in [e:-wis]: cern-ō “decree”, crē-u-ī, crē-tum; consuesc-ō “become accustomed“, consuēu-ī, consuē-tum; crēsc-ō “increase”, crē-u-ī, crē-tum; (ad)olēsc-ō “grow up”, adolē-u-ī, adultum; quiēsc-ō “rest”, quiē-u-ī, quiē-tum; ser-ō “sow”, sē-u-ī, sa-tum; spern-ō “scorn”, sprē-u-ī, sprē-tum; suēsc-ō “be wont”, suē-u-ī, suē-tus. pāsc-ō “feed”, pā-u-ī, pās-tum; stern-ō, strā-u-ī, strā-tum “strew”. cognosc-ō “get to know”, cognosce-re, cognō-u-ī, cogni-tum; ignosc-ō “forgive”, ignosce-re, ignō-u-ī, ignō-tum; nosc-ō “know”, nosce-re, nōu-ī, nō-tum. c.\twith the same allomorph in perfectum as in infectum; and consequently with perfectum in /is/ or /…is/: bibo “drink”, bib-ī (pō-tuī); īc-ō “hit”, īc-ī, ic-tum; -cend-ō “kindle”, -cend-ī,-censum; -scend-ō “climb”, -scend-ī, -scen-sum; cūd-ō “forge”, -cūd-ī, -cū-sum; -fend-ō “ward off”, -fend-ī, -fen-sum; mand-ō “chew”, mand-ī, man-sum; pand-ō “open”, pand-ī, pan-sum (pas-sum); pīns-ō (pīs-ō) “bruise”, pīns-ī, pīns-um (pīns-tum, pīs-tum); prehend-ō “seize”, prehend-ī, prehen-sum; scand-ō “climb”, ascend-ī, ascen-sum; sīd-ō “settle”, sīd-ī (-sēd-ī), -ses-sum; strīd-ō “whiz”, strīd-ī ─; uell-ō « pluck », uell-ī (-uul-sī), uul-sum; uerr-ō, uerr-ī, uer-sum “sweep”; uert-ō, uert-ī, uer-sum “turn”; animaduert-ō “pay attention to”, uert-ī, uer-sum; uīs-ō “go and look”, uīs-ī, uī-sum.\ndictionnaire/the_morphology_of_classical_latin7.1446925729.txt.gz · Dernière modification: 2015/11/07 20:48 par ollivier Mentions légales.


'el-þeódisc' - Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary\nAddǼghwylc man þe on þǽre ceastre cóm ælþeódisc, hié hine genámon and his eágan út ástungon, Bl. H. 229, 10. Of elþeódiscre bargina (v. elþeódig), Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 13. [Laym. alþeodisc.]\nToller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "el-þeódisc." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 187.\nel-þeódisc adj. Foreign, strange; pĕregrīnus To bebyrgenne elbeódisce men in sĕpultūram pĕregrīnōrum, Mt. Bos. 27, 7. v. elþeódig.


Bosworth/Toller, page b1124\nThis is page 1124 of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Bosworth and Toller (1898)\nUN-ONWENDENDLÍC - UN-RIHT\nun-onwendendlíc; adj. Unchangeable, immutable :-- God ána unanwendendlíc wuniaþ se immobilem conservat, Bt. 35, 5; Fox 166, 9 note: Met. 20, 17: 24, 43.\nun-onwendendlíce; adv. Unchangeably, immutably, without variableness :-- Ðæt hí geðencen hú hrædlíce se eorðlíca hlísa ofergæ-acute;ð, and hú unanwendendlíce se godcunda ðurhwunaþ ut pensent, humana judicia quanta velocitate evolant, divina autem quanta immobilitate perdurant, Past. 59; Swt. 447, 30. Ic nát hwæþer hit eall gewyrþan sceal unanwendendlíce, ðæt hé getiohhod hæfþ, Bt. 41, 3; Fox 248, 30 note: 250, 1, 2 note. Se wísa mon eall his líf læ-acute;t on gefeán unonwendendlíce, 12; Fox 36, 24.\nun-orne; adj. Simple, plain, poor, mean, humble :-- Dunnere, unorne ceorl, Byrht. Th. 139, 18; By. 256. [Crist warrþ unnorne and wrecche and usell child forr þatt he wollde uss alle maken riche, Orm. 3368. He warrþ an unnorne and wrecche mann, 4884. Crist wass unncuþ &yogh;et, and unnwurrþ, and unnorne, 16163. Heo beo ful unorne, oðer of feir elde, A. R. 424, 5. &yogh;ef hire laverd is forwurþe and unorne at bedde and at borde, O. and N. 1492. Horn nis no&yogh;t so unorn; Horn is fairer þane beo he, Horn. 330. He brohte hine uppen unorne mare, þet bitacneð ure unorne fleis, O. E. Homl. i. 85, 3. Hiss (John the Baptist) fode wass unnorne, forr nass nan esstemete þær, Orm. 828: 11548. Unnorne mete and wæde, 6337. Þet heo ne grucchie uor none mete, ne uor none drunche, ne beo hit neuer so unorne, A. R. 108, 2. Ower cloðes beon unorne, and warme, and wel iwrouhte, 418, 17. Mi stefne is bold and noht unorne, heo is ilich one grete horne, O. and N. 317. Swa (as Nichodemus did) to lefenn upponn Crist wass rihht unnorne læfe, Orm. 16809.] v. next word.\nun-ornlíc; adj. Poor, plain, mean :-- Hí námon him ealde gescý and unornlíc scrúd they took old shoes and mean apparel; tulerunt calceamenta perantiqua, induti veteribus vestimentis, Jos. 9, 5. [Arrchelauss flæh inntill oþerr land, and tære he wass unnorneli&yogh; (in mean estate), Orm. 8251. Cf. Lætenn swiþe unorneli&yogh; and litell off þe sellfenn, Orm. 3750: 7525: 4886. Me wore leuere i wore lame, þanne men ... him onne handes leyde unornelike, or same seyde, Havel. 1941.] v. preceding word.\nun-pleólíc; adj. Not dangerous, without risk, (1) as regards physical hurt :-- Unpleólícre hit bið on lytlum scipe and on lytlum wætere, ðonne on miclum scipe and on miclum wætere, Prov. Kmbl. 29. (2) as regards moral hurt :-- Augustinus cwæð, ðæt unpleólíc sý þeáh hwá læ-acute;cewyrte ðirge; ac ðæt hé tæ-acute;lþ tó unálýfedlícere wíglunge, gif hwá ða wyrta on him becnitte, búton hé hí tó ðam dolge gelecge, Homl. Th. i. 476, 3. Sume teolunga sind ðe man earfoðlíce mæg búton synnum begán, Petrus hæfde unpleólíce teolunge, and hé búton pleó tó his fixnoðe gecyrde, ii. 288, 25. Ðás tácna sind dígle and unpleólíce, i. 306, 30.\nun-pleólíce; adv. Without danger, without risk, safely :-- Ða óðre apostoli be Godes hæ-acute;se leofodon be heora láre unpleólíce; ac ðeáh hwæðere Paulus ána nolde ða álýfdan bigleofan onfón, ac mid ágenre teolunge his neóde foresceáwode, Homl. Th. i. 392, 20.\nun-ræ-acute;d, es; m. I. evil counsel, ill-advised course, bad plan, folly :-- Scipia sæ-acute;de, ðæt hit (the building of a theatre) wæ-acute;re se mæ-acute;sta unræ-acute;d and se mæ-acute;sta gedwola dicens, inimicissimum hoc fore bellatori populo ad nutriendam desidiam, lasciviaeque commentum, Ors. 4, 12; Swt. 210, 1. Eádríc gewende ðone cyning ongeán. Næs nán mára unræ-acute;d geræ-acute;d ðonne se wæs Eadricus per dolum fecit exercitum Anglorum redire. Non fuit pejus concilium factum in Anglia de tali re, Chr. l016; Erl. 157, 22. Ðæs unræ-acute;des (the building of the tower of Babel) stíðferhð cyning steóre gefremede, Cd. Th. 101, 15; Gen. 1682. Gif ðú unræ-acute;des ne geswícest, Exon. Th. 249, 31; Jul. 120: 393, 14; Rä. 12, 10: 410, 6; Rä. 28, 12. Hí geeácnodon heora yfel and God mid weorcum gegremedon ... swá ðæt hig Eglone þeówodon for heora unræ-acute;de, Jud. 3, 14: Thw. p. 162, 29. Hý férdon on unriht and unræ-acute;de fyligdon ambulaverunt post vanitatem (Jeremiah 2, 5), Wulfst. 49, 9. Absalon férde forð mid his unræ-acute;de, and wolde his ágenum fæder feores benæ-acute;man, Homl. Skt. i. 19, 215. Ðæra hálgena líc woldon hí besencan on flóde, ac se ælmihtiga Scyppend wiðslóh ðam unræ-acute;de. Sum wíf wæs ðe wiste heora unræ-acute;d, ii. 29, 324. Tó his (Lucifer's) unræ-acute;de gefæstnod, Ælfc. T. Grn. 2. 44: 4, 10: Cd. Th. 43, 33; Gen. 700. Hé intó Englelande mid máran unræ-acute;de férde ðone him behófode, Chr. 1093; Erl. 229, 3. Wæs gesæ-acute;d ðæt hé wæ-acute;re on ðam unræ-acute;de, ðæt man sceolde on Eást-Sexon Swegen underfón, Chart. Th. 539, 27. Agathocles gedyde untreówlíce wið hiene... On ðære hwíle ðe hé ðone unræ-acute;d þurhteáh, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 170, 53. Ne wend ðú ðé on ðæs folces unræ-acute;d and unriht gewil non sequeris turbam ad faciendum malum (Ex. 23, 2), L. Alf. 41; Th. i. 54, 6. Ðæs engles mód ðe ðone unræ-acute;d (rebellion against God) ongan æ-acute;rest fremman, Cd. Th. 3, 3; Gen. 30. Hyra freá æ-acute;rest unræ-acute;d (the setting up of the image) efnde, 227, 13; Dan. 186. Hí þégun æppel unræ-acute;dum (ill-advisedly), Exon. Th. 226, 9; Ph. 403. Ealle ðás ungesæ-acute;lþa ús gelumpon þuruh unræ-acute;das, Chr. 1011; Erl. 145, 22. II. disadvantage, prejudice, hurt :-- Ic andette ... æ-acute;lcne glængc ðe tó mínes líchaman unræ-acute;de æ-acute;fre belimpe, L. de Cf. 7; Th. ii. 262, 28: Anglia xi. 98, 28. Hé helle ontýneþ ðám ðe líces wynne fremedon on unræ-acute;d, Exon. Th. 364, 14; Wal 70. Hí drugon heora sylfra écne unræ-acute;d, Cd. Th. 116, 16; Gen. 1937. [Laym. un-ræd ill-counsel. Þat child his unred to rede wend, O. and N. 1464. Iacobes sunes deden unred, Gen. and Ex. 1906. O. H. Ger. un-rát: Icel. ú-ráð; n. bad counsel, an ill-advised step.]\nun-ræ-acute;den[n], e; f. An ill-advised action :-- Hé ða unræ-acute;den folmum gefremede, ofslóh bróðor sínne, Cd. Th. 60, 16; Gen. 982. [Cf. Icel. ú-ráðan an ill-advised step.]\nun-ræ-acute;dfæstlíce; adv. Unadvisedly, without heeding good counsel :-- Twá geár hé ríxode unræ-acute;dfæstlíce, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 456.\nun-ræ-acute;dlíc; adj. Ill-advised, foolish, vain :-- Hié hæfdon plegan and oforgedrync, and dyslíce and unræ-acute;dlíce hálsunga. Blickl. Homl. 99, 21. [O. H. Ger. un-rátlíh inconsultus: Icel. ú-ráðligr inadvisable, inexpedient.]\nun-ræ-acute;dlíce; adv. Unadvisedly, inconsiderately :-- Unræ-acute;dlíce inconsulte, Wrt. Voc. ii. 80, 78: 44, 79: inconsulte, inconsiderate, Hpt. Gl. 474, 57: 509, 64. Hé begann tó lufienne leahtras tó swíðe mid his cnihtum, ðe unræ-acute;dlíce férdon on heora ídelum lustum, Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 14. On ðám ænglum ðe unræ-acute;dlíce módegodon, Homl. Skt. i. 13, 183. Ús gedafenaþ ðæt wé hit wénon swíðor ðonne wé hit unræ-acute;dlíce geséþan, Homl. Th. i. 440, 31. [O. H. Ger. un-rátlícho inconsulte: Icel. ú-ráðliga.]\nunræ-acute;d-síþ, es; m. A foolish, unprofitable way :-- Ic unræ-acute;dsíþas óþrum stýre nyttre fóre, Exon. Th. 393, 2; Rä. 12, 4.\nun-reht not treated, un-reht wrong. v. un-áreht, un-riht.\nun-reordian (?) to speak ill of, to abuse :-- Swá firenfulle fácnum wordum heora aldorðægn unreordadon (on reordadon? v. on, B. III. 5), Cd. Th. 269, 1; Sat. 66.\nun-rétan. v. ge-unrétan.\nun-réðe; adj. Not fierce, gentle :-- Wé ræ-acute;daþ be ðære culfran gecynde, ðæt heó is unréðe on hire clawum, Homl. Th. ii. 44, 25.\nun-rétu (-o); f. Anxiety, disquiet :-- Ðá bæ-acute;don mec míne geféran ðæt ic on swá micelre módes unréto and nearonisse mec selfne mid fæstenne ne swencte rogantibus amicis ne me anxietate et jejunio condeficerem, Nar. 30, 23. v. un-rót.\nun-ríce; adj. Not rich or not powerful, poor, humble :-- Ða ðe unríce synd and hafenleáse þearfan pauperiores, R. Ben. 104, 7. Mín geréfa oþþe æ-acute;nig óðer man ríccre oþþe unríccre, L. Edg. S. 13; Th. i. 276, 26. Ic wát ðæt ðú hefst ðone hláford ðe ðú treówast bet ðonne ðé silfum, and swá hefð eác manig ðara ðe unrícran hláford hefð ðonne ðú hefst, Shrn. 196, 11. [Icel. ú-ríkr.]\nun-riht; adj. Wrong, evil, bad, unjust, unlawful, depraved, perverse :-- Ic eom geþafa ðæt hit náuht unriht wæ-acute;re ðæt mon ða yfelwillendan men héte nétenu fateor nec injuries dici video vitiosos in belluas mutari, Bt. 38, 2; Fox 196, 17. Ic geléfe ðætte æ-acute;lc unriht wítnung sié ðæs yfel ðe hit déþ, næs ðæs ðe hit þafaþ apparet, illatam cuilibet injuriam non accipientis, sed inferentis esse miseriam, 38, 6; Fox 208, 20. Unreht, 37, 2; Fox 188, 7. Se yfla, unrihta willa wóhhæ-acute;metes voluptas, Met. 18, 1. Of unrihtum wege de via iniquitatis, Ps. Th. 106, 16. Gif hwá geniéd sié oþþe tó hláfordsearwe oþþe tó æ-acute;ngum unryhtum fultume, L. Alf. pol. i. 60, 5. Unryhtre æ-acute; unlawful marriage, Exon. Th. 260, 14; Jul. 297. Hé gedwolan fylde, unrihte æ-acute; idolatry, Elen. Kmbl. 2081; El. 1042. Ic wundrige for hwí swá rihtwís déma æ-acute;nige unrihte gife wille forgifan, Bt. 38, 3; Fox 202, 10. Tuoege wóhfullo &l-bar; unrehto duo nequam, Lk. Skt. Lind. 23, 32. Unræhto (-rehte, Rush.) &l-bar; wóh praua, 3, 5. Ða unrihtan men, Blickl. Homl. 231, 10. Áblinnan fram heora unrihtum gestreónum, 25, 5. Cynewulf benam Sigebryht his ríces for unryhtum dæ-acute;dum, Chr. 755; Erl. 48, 19. Mid hiera unryhtum bisenum per exemplum pravi operis, Past. 9; Swt. 59, 18. Fram sumum unrihtum láreówum a quibusdam perversis doctoribus, Bd. 2, 15; S. 518, 30. Unrihte wegas ealle omnem viam iniquitatis, Ps. Th. 118, 104. Unrihte gemeta and wóge gewihta áweorpe man, Wulfst. 70, 3. Ða unrehtan iniqua, Ps. Surt. 9, 24. [O. Frs. un-riucht: O. Sax. un-reht: O. H. Ger. un-reht improbus, injustus, iniquus, vitiosus: Icel. ú-réttr.] v. following words.\nun-riht, es; n. I. wrong, evil, iniquity, injustice :-- Unriht injuria, Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 26. Hira unriht (iniquitas) wearð untýned, Ps. Th. 72, 5: Blickl. Homl. 175, 9. Hwylc unryht mæg bión máre quae potest iniquior esse confusio? Bt. 39, 9; Fox 224, 28. Unrihtes feala iniquitates, Ps. Th. 54, 3. Gé ðe unrihtes wyrceaþ qui operantur iniquitatem, 52, 5: 58, 2: 70, 3. Ða ðe unrihtes þenceaþ, 140, 11: Blickl. Homl. 111, 1. Ðæ-acute;m mannum ðe heora synna and unrihtes geswícaþ ... and næ-acute;fre tó unrihtum ne gewendaþ, 193, 22: Elen. Kmbl. 1029; Ei. 516. Ic him ðæs unrihtes (seeking to destroy Jesus) andsæc fremede, 941; El. 472. Ðæt hý bealodæ-acute;de, æ-acute;lces unryhtes gescomeden, Exon. Th. 80, 5; Cri. 1303. Ða oferhýdegan, ðe mé unrihte (or adv.) grétan injuste iniquitatem fecerunt in me, Ps. Th. 118, 78: Cd. Th. 78, 12; Gen. 1292. Full mið unrehte plenum iniquitate, Lk. Skt. Rush. 11, 39. Mid unryhte wrongfully, Chr. 823; Erl. 62, 23. Mid unrihte, Ps. Th. 58, 1: 68, 28: Andr. Kmbl. 3116; An. 1561. Ne dém nán unriht non injuste judicabis, Lev. 19, 15. Ðonne gé unriht wirceaþ quando feceritis malum, Deut. 31, 29. Eallum ðe unriht wyrceaþ qui operautur iniquitatem, Ps. Th. 58, 5. Hí wyrceaþ unriht (injustitiam), 93, 4. Unriht dón, Bt. 38, 3; Fox 202, 12: Cd. Th. 217, 16; Dan. 23. Grendel unriht æfnde, Beo. Th. 2512; B. 1254. Unryht fremian, Exon. Th. 79, 16; Cri. 1291: Ps. Th. 118, 51. Unriht (iniquitatem) sprecan, 72, 6: 62, 9: Homl. Th. ii. 452, 6. Hé mid listum speón idese on ðæt unriht (taking the forbidden fruit), Cd. Th. 37, 13; Gen. 589. Hit wæs mid unriht him of genumen, Chr. 1072; Erl. 211, 8. Heó on unriht þóhtan injusta cogitatio eorum est, Ps. Th. 118, 118: Beo. Th. 5471; B. 2739: Elen. Kmbl. 1161; El. 582: Wulfst. 158, 10. Ðý læs hié on unryht hæ-acute;men propter fornicationem, Past. 16; Swt. 99, 14: 51; Swt. 397, 19. Ne gemune ðú ealdra unrihta ne memineris iniquitates antiquas, Ps. Th. 78, 8: Wulfst. 156, 20. Babylonie mid monigfealdum unryhtum and firenlustum libbende wæ-acute;ron, Ors. 2, 1; Swt. 64, 7. Unrihtum, Bt. 16, 4; Fox 58, 10: Blickl. Homl. 109, 20: Cd. Th. 259, 2; Dan. 685. Him gyldeþ God ealle ða unriht (iniquitates) ðe hí geearnedan, Ps. Th. 93, 22. Æ-acute;r man áweódige ða unriht and ða mánweorc. Wulfst. 243, 19. II. a defect :-- Ða ðe mid unrihte heora gecyndes beóþ geuntrumade quae naturae suae vitio infirmantur, Bd. 1, 27; S. 494, 21. [O. Frs. un-riucht: O. Sax. un-reht: O. H. Ger. un-reht iniquitas, injustitia, injuria, nefas.]


Bryane Irish genealogy records\nBryane households in mid-nineteenth century Ireland\nNo Bryane households in Griffith's.\nBryane in 1659.\nBryane births mapped 1864-1913\nParishes where Bryane and a second surname are found together