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▪ I. spae, n. rare.|speɪ|
Also 4 north. spa, 6 Sc. spe.
[a. ON. spá: cf. next.]
Prediction, prophecy; augury, omen.
a1300Cursor M. 14526 Cayphas spak þus in his spa, Wordes suilk and oþer maa. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 5 This victorie with the scotis was estemet as a spe or gud tukne of happie succes to follow. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 136 The Finns' spae is come true, so here we shall settle.
▪ II. spae, v. orig. north. and Sc.|speɪ|
Also 4 spa, 6 spai, spay.
[a. ON. spá (Icel. spá, Norw. spaa; MSw. spā, Sw. spå, Da. spaa, † spo; also NFris. spoai, spuai, spui from Danish), of uncertain origin.]
To foretell, to prophesy. Chiefly trans. with direct object or with that.
a1300Cursor M. 18988 O propheci..sal þai speke,..And o mi gast I sal a streme To suain and womman gife alsua, At cum wit propheci to spa. 1513Douglas æneid ii. iv. 89 Thocht scho spayit the suitht, and maid na bourd. Ibid. iii. vi. 28 The Harpy Celeno Spais onto ws a feirfull takin of wo. 1721Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 76 Does Tam the Rhimer spae oughtlins of this? a1774Fergusson Farmer's Ingle Poems (1845) 36 Fu' hale and healthy wad they pass the day;..Nor doctor need their weary life to spae. 1785Burns Halloween xiv, [To] seek the foul Thief onie place, For him to spae your fortune. 1815Scott Guy M. iii, Tell me the very minute o' the hour the wean's born, and I'll spae its fortune. 1841Borrow Zincali I. iv. 78 A Gypsy sibyl..spaed the good fortune to his daughters. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 136 Ingimund left Norway because some Finns had spaed that he should settle in Iceland. 1876A. Laing Lindores Abbey xxvi. 382 The spaewife might now spae in vain.
Hence ˈspaeing vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.; ˈspaer, one who foretells.
c1480Henryson Orph. & Euryd. 588 Wichcraft, Spaying, and sorsery. 1513Douglas æneid i. vi. 148 Les than [= unless] my parentis taucht me spaying craft fals. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, May your spaeing happen soon and weel. 1790Shirrefs Poems 122 And sae it is with a' the spaeing crew. Ibid. 123 Before they enter on the spaeing part. 1820Blackw. Mag. May 161 A seller o' horn spoons, and a spaer o' poor folks' fortunes. |