yede
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From Middle English ȝede, from Old English ēode.
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yede
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yede
- (obsolete or literary) To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 232:
- The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;