Wildan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wildan

p. de. I. to tame, subdue :-- Wylde domuit, i. vicit, mitigavit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 141, 74. II, to make submissive, have dominion over, rule, control :-- Hit is swytol, dæt man to hwōn wylde (wilde, gewilde, ) and woruldlíce stȳrde dām de oftost for Gode syn-godon and scendan dās þeóde, Wulfst. 168, 2. Wille ic dæt . . . ic and míne þegnas wyldan ūre preóstas tō dan de ūre sāula hyrdas ūs tǣcaþ dæt syndon úre bisceopas, L. Edg. S. l; Th. i. 272, 17. Se de done mǣran noman abbodes underfēhd, hē sceal mid twyfealdre lāre dawyldan and tȳn, de him underþeódde synt qui suscipit nomen abbatis duplici debet doctrina suis preesse discipulis, R. Ben. II, 12. Gyf mīn hī ne beóþ wyldde si mei non fuerint dominati. Ps. Spl. 18, 14. III. to take into one's power, to seize :-- Ne dȳde man on Sunnandæges freólse ǣnigne forwyrhtne man . . . ac wylde (wylde man hine, v. l. ; the old Latin version has capiatur) and healde, dæt se freólsdæg āgān sȳ, L. C. S. 45 ; Th. i. 402, 12: L. E. G. 9; Th. i. 172, 14. v. ge-wildan (-wyldan), wilding. wildan

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