FromMiddle English wode Old English wōd ( “ mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *wōdaz Middle Dutch woet woede wuot Wut ( “ fury ” ) , Old Norseóðr Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 ( wōds “ demonically possessed ” ) ), fromProto-Indo-European *weh₂t-ós *weh₂t- ( “ excited, possessed ” ) (compareLatin vātēs ( “ seer, prophet ” ) ,Old Irish fáith ( “ seer ” ) ,Welsh gwawd ( “ song ” ) ).
wode (comparative woder superlative wodest
( obsolete ) Mad ,crazy ,insane ,possessed ,rabid ,furious ,frantic .a . 1588Jasper Heywood , quoted in James Petite Andews,The History of Great Britain , published 1806My hair stode up, I waxedwode , my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake. Seewoad
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Obsolete spelling ofwoad FromOld English wōd Proto-West Germanic *wōd Proto-Germanic *wōdaz Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós
wode uncountable
madness ,insanity , an overmastering emotion,rage ,fury c. 1400 Laud Troy Book When thei saw hir forwode so wilde Thei did lede hir ... With-oute the toun[ …] When they saw her rage so wild, They did lead her ... out the town [...] And stoned her to death. wode
To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.c. 1382 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e. ,Geoffrey Chaucer ], “Boetius de consolatione Philosophie ”, in [William Thynne ], editor,The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, [ … ] , [London: [ … ] Richard Grafton for]Iohn Reynes [ … ] 1542 ,→OCLC to be or become furious, enraged.c. 1386–1390 John Gower , edited byReinhold Pauli ,Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts (please specify |volume=I, II, or III) , London:Bell and Daldy [ … ] 1857 ,→OCLC Whan I ne may my ladi se, The more I am redy to wraththe[ …] wode as doth the wylde Se. (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) 1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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frantically ferociously ,fiercely intensely ,furiously c. 1374–1385 (date written)i.e. ,Geoffrey Chaucer ], “The House of Fame ”, in [William Thynne ], editor,The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, [ … ] , [London: [ … ] Richard Grafton for]Iohn Reynes [ … ] 1542 ,→OCLC Lat us to the peple seme Suche as the world may of us deme That wommen loven us forwod . (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) furiously enraged, irate, angryHe waswod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by(Can wedate this quote by Johannes Mirkus and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) When þe wale kyng wist, he wexwode wroth . —(Can wedate this quote by Wars of Alexander and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) wode
mad ,insane ,possessed ,furious ,frantic , mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.rabid wild , not tamedFromOld English wudu Proto-West Germanic *widu Proto-Germanic *widuz wood .
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To hunt. To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods( also reflexive: ben woded ) . 1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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alternative form ofwaden wōde
second-person singular preterite indicative ofwadan wode
alternative form ofwoode 1867 SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY , number 7, page86 :Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naamewode b' zung, If we had any luck, our namewould have been sung 1867 SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY , number11 , page88 :Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland , London: J. Russell Smith, published1867 ,page78 
