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wód

  • adjective
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wód, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§426;
Mad
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  • Wód

    rabidus vel insanus,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 45, 70
      • :
    • 75, 56.
in reference to persons
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  • Ðú eart wód

    daemonium habes.

    • Jn. Skt. 8, 48, 49, 52
      • :
    • Homl. Th. ii. 232, 17.

  • Hwá is swá wód, ðæt hé dyrre cweðan, ðæt God ne sé ǽce,

      Shrn. 176, 32.

  • Ne syut ná ðiswódes mannes word,

      Jn. Skt. 10, 21.

  • Wódan gewittes,

    • Cd. Th. 255, 22
      • ;
    • Dan. 628.

  • Tó biddenne hire wódan dehter gesundfulnysse . . . seó dohtor on wódum dreáme læg dweligende,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 110, 15-19
      • :
    • 50, 27.

  • Fela wóde menn heora gewit underféngon,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 27, 130.

  • Hé wódum mannum gewitt forgeaf,

      Homl. Th. i. 480, 14.

  • Hé ða deóflu áfligde of dám wódum wyrhtum,

      Homl. Skt. i. 6, 205.
raving, blasphemous,
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v. wodlíce, II, wódness, II, and cf. woffian
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  • Múð wódne sóðfæstnysse andsware genyþerian os

    blasphemum veritatis responsione dampnare,

      Scint. 9, II.
of animals
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  • Wið wódes hundes slite,

      Lchdm. i. 4, 8.

  • His hors feól wealwigende geond ða eorðan wódum gelícost,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 206.
of things, mad, raging, furious
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  • Heom on becom swiðe hreóh weder, and seó wóde sǽ and se stranga wind hí on ðæt land áwearp,

    • Chr. 1075
      • ;
    • Erl. 212, 23.

  • Wóð effera (fluctuum ferocitas,

      Ald. 42
    ),

      Hpt. Gl. 478, 60.

  • Sió wóde þrág ðære wrǽnnesse,

    • Bt. 37, I
      • ;
    • Fox 186, 18
      • :
    • Met. 25, 41.
[
Laym. Orm. A. R. Ayenb. wod
:
Chauc. wood
:
Prompt. Parv. wood, coen
:
Goth. wóds
:
O. H. Ger. wuce
:
Icel. óðr.
]
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v. ellen-, tung-wód; wéde.
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v.  wódlíce wódness.
Entry information
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wód.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/36378.

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