▪ I. † hethen, adv. Obs.
Forms: 3 heðen, 3–5 heþen, hethen, (3 heoðen, heþenn, 4 heden, heiþen, -in, heythen, eþen, hiþen, 4–5 hethin, -yn, -ene, 5 hethinne, -un, hithinne).
[Early ME., a. ON. heðan (Sw. häden, Da. heden), f. root of he pron.]
= hence.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 185 Heðen to fare to siker wunienge. c 1200 Ormin 15570 Gaþ till, and bereþþ heþenn ut Whattlike þise þingess. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1644 Hu fer ist heðen to laban? a 1300 Cursor M. 7578 (Cott.), I red betime þou hethen [Fairf. heythen] fle. 13.. Ibid. 8229 (Gött.) ‘Sal nan’, he said, ‘þaim heden [Cott. heþen] stir’. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 26 After nyen and tuenty ȝere þe dede him hiþen nam. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 408 ‘Fare well..for y mot heþen fonden.’ c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2542 Þat sho was likly hethin to pas. ? a 1500 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 56 Or I hethen wyn This cote shalbe myne. |
b. With from.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter cxiii. [cxv.] 18 Fra hethen, and in to werld þat isse. a 1300 Cursor M. 22678 Right vn[t]o þe abime fra heþen. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 6007 And swa sely may be alle þas, Þat fra hethen in charité gas. |
Hence † hethenforth, -forthward, -forward advs. = henceforth, etc. † hethensith, departure, decease. † hethenward adv., away from here, hence.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 65 Doð giwer lichame heðenforð to hersumiende clennesse. a 1300 E.E. Psalter cxii[i]. 2 Fra heþen forth into werld þat isse. c 1340 Cursor M. 11695 (Fairf.) Fra now heyþen forwarde. c 1410 N. Love Bonavent. Mirr. I. 105 (Gibbs MS.), I schal neuer heþen forthwarde fele oght of hem. |
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 125 Þe wunderliche heðen sið of ure louerd seint iohan baptiste. Ibid. 141 Hwu wunderlich was his hider-cume..and hwu siker his heðensið. |
| c 1200 Ormin 5490 Aȝȝ hemm langeþþ heþennwarrd, And upp till heoffness blisse. a 1400–50 Alexander 734 Hy þe hethen-ward [Dubl. hyneward], þou hathill. |
▪ II. hethen, heþen, heðen
obs. ff. heathen.