Middle English Dictionary Entry
arudden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | arudden v. Forms: impv. arude; p. arudde; ppl. arud(d. |
| Etymology | Cp. OE ārydid expilatum, & OI ryðja clear (land, the way, etc.); only in early SW texts. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. ridden & aredden.
1.
(a) To rid (sb. of danger, an enemy), rescue, save; (b) to free (sb.), liberate (a city).
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)61/656 : Of þis reade lei reaf & arude me.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)916 : Þa he hefde arudd us of feondes raketehen, wende up..to wunien þer he wuneð aa.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1137 : Hwen he com to arudden of deaðes rake oðre, hwi deide he him seoluen?
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)14/30 : He wule, þu heatele reue, arudde mi sawle ut of þine honden.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)24/14 : Þe rode taken redliche arudde hire.
- c1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)14/130 : To arudden him ut þrof [hell].
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)105b : Þes king..arudde [Nero: a redde] hire of alle hire van.
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)27799 : Þa Romanisce men arudden [Otho: a-redde] heore kæiseren.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30972 : Arude [Otho: a-reade] we Brien, þe is min ibore mon.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)81b : Te burh is arud þet ha hefden biset..þe sunfule is delifret.