▪ I. † had, hade, hod Obs.
Forms: 1 hád, 2–4 had, 3–4 hade, hod.
[OE. hád = OS. hêd, condition, rank (:—OTeut. *haidu-z: cf. Goth. haidus way, manner, OHG. heit m. and fem., person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank, ON. heiðr honour, dignity, Sw. häder, Da. hæder honour). Being used in comb. with ns. as in cild-hád, mæᵹden-hád, etc., this word, after its obsolescence as an independent word, remained as a suffix, ME. -hod, mod. -hood q.v. The n. after 1200 appears in southern and midl. ME. as hôd, in north. as had, hode; the forms in a being much more numerous, it is here treated under had, although, if it had lived on, the modern Eng. form would have been hode or hoad.]
1. Person (in various senses).
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xix. [xvii.] (1890) 312 ænne God on þreom astondnessum oðþo hadum. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxii. 16 Þu ne be-sceawast nanes mannes had. c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxii. (Z.) 127 Þry hadas synt worda. Se forma had ys þe sprecþ be him sylfum ana. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 99 An god..on þreom hadan. c 1200 Ormin 10989 Þreo hadess, Faderr and Sune and Haliȝ Gast. a 1225 Ancr. R. 26 On almihti God, þrile ine þreo hodes. |
2. Sex. (Only in OE.)
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 26 ælcere yldo and hade. a 1000 Christ 99 Gewuldrad is se heanra had. |
3. Order, rank, degree; holy orders.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. (Sweet) 3 æᵹðer ᵹe godcundra hada ᵹe woruldcundra. c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xiv. [xiii.] (1890) 436 Wær inn læwdum hade. c 1000 ælfric Gram. xi. (Z.) 79 Gradas, had oððe stæpe. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 101 Bisceopas þes ilcan hades. c 1200 Ormin Ded. 9 Unnderr kanunnkess had and lif. a 1225 Ancr. R. 318 Munuch, preost, oðer clerk, and of þet hode. a 1300 Cursor M. 21248 O biscop siþen he tok þe hade. 1340 Ayenb. 235 Uor þet hod þet hi habbeþ onderuonge. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Ninian 374 Al at to sic had partenyt. |
4. State, condition, quality, kind.
| Beowulf (Z.) 1297 Hæleþa leofost, on ᵹe-siðes had. a 1000 Sal. & Sat. (Gr.) 408 Leoht hafað hiw and had haliᵹes gastes. c 1230 Hali Meid. 23 Of þeos þre had, meidenhad and widewehad and te þridde wedlached. |
▪ II. had
pa. tense and pple. of have, q.v.
▪ III. had
mod. form of hald, north. f. hold v.