单词 | wanweird |
释义 | † wanweirdn. Scottish. Obsolete. Ill fate; misfortune.In quot. a1627 personified. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] unhealc700 unselthc888 bale-sithea1000 unselea1023 un-i-selthOE sithec1250 ruthc1275 unwhatec1275 tempestc1330 illa1340 infelicityc1384 banec1400 naufragiea1425 infortunitya1438 naufrage1480 calamity1490 inconvenience1509 wanweirda1522 inconveniency1553 wroth1581 murderation1862 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. v. 24 I tuke comfort heirof, thinkand but baid That hard wanwerd suld follow fortoun glaid. 1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 307 Sen for no wisdome, nor no strenth, Nor for no richess in this erd, That ony man his lyf may lenth, Naythir for freyndschip agane wanewerd. a1586 (?a1550) Murning Maiden 19 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 360 Wanweird, scho said, quhat haue I wrocht That on me kythit hes all this cair? a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 407 Sen gratius [God] that hes all thing in erd, At his weil[d]ing to weill or ȝit wan werd. a1627 A. Craig Pilgrime & Heremite (1631) sig. A3 Perchance before that thou her againe see, By vote of the Wan-weirds, that buried shee bee. 1803 J. Jamieson Water Kelpie in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 361 Nor wit nor pow'r put aff the hour, For his wanweird decreed. 1852 A. Harper Fruits Solitary Hours 55 Gif black wanweird do not prevent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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