† ˈwoodship Obs.
[OE. wódscipe: see wood a. and -ship.]
Madness; = woodness.
| c 1000 Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 245/12 Furia, insania, amentia, wodscipe, reþnes. a 1225 Ancr. R. 120 Ira furor brevis est: wreððe is a wodschipe. a 1240 Lofsong in O.E. Hom. I. 211 Leste þu wreoke ham on me i wodschipe of þine wreððe. a 1325 Prose Psalter xxxvi[i]. 8 Ende fram ire, and forsak wodeship. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxx. (1869) 62 Glotonye hath double woodshipe; woodshipe of savouring, and woodshipe of outrageous spekinge. |