† ayieldv.
Obsolete.
To yield up.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (reflexive)] > give in
ayielda1000
yield1297
bandona1400
submita1450
renounce?1531
render1604
exhibit1628
society > armed hostility > defeat > suffer defeat [verb (transitive)] > surrender (a town, etc.)
yield1297
ayield1450
render1481
surrender1509
capitulate1610
to lay down (one's) arms1659
to ground arms1855
a1000 Soul's Complaynt 91 Þæt þu ne scyle..riht agieldan.
c1325 Rembrun 475 (Halliw.) Ayild the to this knight.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2444 ‘Þef,’ saide he..‘aȝeld þe, þov schalt dye.’
1450 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) App. 280 in Parl. Papers (C. 673) XXXIII. 337 To ayelde up..the seid towne of Anyoies.
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