Ge-dwild, -dwyld
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-dwild, -dwyld
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-dwild, -dwyld
- Add; I. in a physical sense, wandering :-- Ilias ꝥ beóð gewyn, and Odissia beóð gedwyld (cf. the opening of the Odyssey, 'Sing of the man who wandered much . . . and saw the cities of many men'), swá Omérus on þǽre béc recð, Angl. viii. 330, 46. II. error, a being astray :-- Þá mynstermenn noldon for menniscum gedwylde (cf. Bd. 3, 11) þone sanct (Oswald) underfón, Hml. S. 26, 179. Ábródenum gedwilde sussurrone (for the meaning given to this word, cf. susurronis desiges, 998) subtracto, Kent. Gl. 996. Gedwytdum erratibus, erroribus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 18. II a. in an ecclesiastical or theological sense, false opinion, heresy; superstition, false religion :-- Ásprang on Godes folce mycel gedwyld . . . on ðám tíman þe ðá bisceopas sceoldan Godes ꝥ hálige folc on rihtne weg gebringan, hí swíðost ǽlces gedweldes tiledon, and ǽlc gedwyld hí upp árǽrdon, Hml. S. 23, 353-364. Gedwyldes superstitionis. An. Ox. 4429. Gedwylde superstitione. 4021. Secgað sume þá Denisce men on heora gedwylde þæt sé Iouis wǽre, þe hý Þór hátað, Mercuries sunu, þe hí Oðon namiað, Wlfst. 107, 9: 106, 22. Sum bisceop gelýfde þámhíwere and hine tó him gebæd, and hé wearð for þám gedwylde ádrǽfed of his anwealde, Hml. S. 31, 839. Heó mid Arrianiscum gedwylde dweligende lyfode, 653. Nestorius cwæð ꝥ on Críste wǽron twégen hádas, and hí his gedwild ádwǽscton, Ll. Th. ii. 374, 19. Hit getácnað gydwyldu (hereses) árísende, Archiv cxx. 50, 23. III. deception, a leading astray, (was found to be a cruel devil able to deceive (?)), Hml. S. 18, 48. Antecríst wile ámyrran mid his gedwylde eall þæt se sóða Críst ǽr bodade and gesette tó rihte, Wlfst. 195, 17. Ðonne tweónað fela manna . . . for ðám micclum and mænigfealdum gedwyldum þe hí geseóð and gehýrað, hwæðer hé sý se sóða Godes sunu oððe ná ne sý, 196, 13. v. mis-gedwild. ge-dwild