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pardie, perdie, int. or adv. arch.|pɜːˈdiː, pɛːˈdiː|
Forms: α. (3 par deu), 4–6 parde, (5 pardee), 5– pardie, 7–9 pardi, (5 par dy, 6 pardye, 6, 9 pardy, 9 pardieu). β. 4–6 perde, (5 per dieu), 6 per de, (per dee, perdee, perdye), 6– perdie (perdy).
[a. OF. par dé (13th c.), mod. pardieu (also colloq. pardi), by God.]
A form of oath: = ‘By God!’; hence as an asseveration: Verily, certainly, assuredly, indeed.
αc1290Becket 2046 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 165 Nai par deu, nouȝt a fote. c1386Chaucer Merch. Prol. 22 A good sire hoost I haue ywedded bee Thise monthes two and moore nat pardee [v.r. parde]. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xv. (1859) 12 Parde, some wyght wyl haue vpon me routhe. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 168 The hous is myne, pardie. c1540J. Heywood Four P.P. B iij b, In that ye palmer as debyte May clerely dyscharge him parde. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. ii. 10, I pardi demanding..how they could take such an oath.., they answered. 1754Fielding Fathers iii. ii, Pardie! Sir, your most humble servant. 1841Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii. 66 Not their deeds of arms alone, pardi. 1842Tennyson Day-Dream, Revival iv, ‘Pardy’, return'd the king, ‘but still My joints are somewhat stiff or so.’ [1843Lytton Last Bar. i. i, But, pardieu, he..knows all the Neviles by eye.]
β1375Barbour Bruce v. 545 Bot how that euir it fell, perde, I trow he sall the varrar be. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. cxxxvi, Perdé a twelve-moneth will be soone gone. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xix. 115 A place perdye detestable. c1550Bale K. Johan (Camden) 81 Symon of Swynsett my very name is per dee. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 305 For if the King like not the Comedie, Why then belike he likes it not perdie. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xxi, Not to move on, perdie, is all they can. 1858Kingsley Red King 32 There's Tyrrel as sour as I, perdie. |