dwild
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old English dwild (“error, heresy”).
Noun
editdwild (plural dwild or dwilde or dwilden)
- false belief, heresy, error
- Nu wærð swa mycel dwyld on Cristen dom swa it næfre ær ne wæs. — Peterborough Chronicle, 1131
- an illusion, a false omen
- Feole dwild wearen ge seogen and ge heord — Peterborough Chronicle, 1122
References
edit- Middle English Dictionary
Old English
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdwild n
Declension
editDeclension of dwild (strong a-stem)
Synonyms
edit- ġedwild n
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “DWILD”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.