Middle English Dictionary Entry
awẹ̄den v.
Entry Info
| Forms | awẹ̄den v. Forms: sg. 3 awẹ̄t; p. awedde; ppl. awed. |
| Etymology | OE awēdan |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. wod.
1.
(a) To become enraged; grow insane or beside oneself; behave foolishly; of animals: become rabid; of the sea: to rage; of an army bent on rapine: to rampage; (b) ppl. awed(de, enraged, rabid; insane, senseless; as noun: a lunatic.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)541 : Frenetus: þe þet þuruh slopleaste awet.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)22020 : Þa Sæ vledeð swulc heo wulle aweden.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6486 : He ferde on his stede sulc he walde awede.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)509 : A sumere chorles awedeþ & uorcrempeþ & uorbredeþ.
- c1300 SLeg.Edm.Abp.(LdMisc 108)114 : Seint Eadmund..beot hire on þe nakede rug, þat wel-neiȝh heo awedde.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)2066 : Latez foles ane stounde a-wede, and in heore folie gon.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)3396 : He was so sori & so wroþ þat he ney awedde.
- c1330(?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch)p.645 : For wreþþe a wolde a-wede.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)3181 : Tristrem in sorwe lay; For þi wald ysonde awede.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)156/779 : Ȝef man þrof ete, he scholde awede.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3185 : But i awede neieȝ of wit for þo werder bestes.
- a1425-a1500(?c1350) Libeaus (Kaluza)1014 : Libeaus so he smitte As man [vr. As wolfe] þat wold awede.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.192v : Roger de Mountgomery brought his host with Walshe men by Shrouesbury and robbedde and stroyed Worcestreshire, And ase they come awedyng to Wircestre to haue take the toune a fewe men .. wente oute and scomfited and sllough many of hem.
- a1450 SLeg.Suppl.Bod.(Bod 779)416/94 : Anon he gan awede, & so he dwellid for wode.
- a1500(?a1325) Otuel & R (Fil)817 : The kyng..schof as he wolde a-wede.
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2599 : Þer he bale funde vppen ane weorede of wlfan awedde.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)19538 : Þæs ilke awedde hundes walden eouwere londes.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1065 : Godd..arerde þe deade..ant draf of þe awedde, awariede wihtes.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)25a : Ȝef ei wurðeð swa awed [Nero: so wod & so awed] þet he warpe hond forð toward te þurl..schutteð al þet þurl to.
- a1275 On leome (Trin-C B.14.39)27 : Hardi he weren & bolde, A-wedde he weren y-nou.
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)4439 : Of witte hii weren awed [Clg: amadde].
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)400 : Wiues þer lay on childbedde, Sum ded, and sum awedde.