† ykid, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs.
Forms: 1 ᵹecyd, 2 ᵹekyd, 3 ikud(d, 3–4 icud(de, 3–5 ykud, 4–5 ykid(de, ykyd, 5 ykyde, (4 ykudde, ycud, ikid, yked, ikedde).
[OE. ᵹec{yacu}d, contracted pa. pple. of c{yacu}þan, ᵹec{yacu}þan: see kid ppl. a. and kithe v.]
Made known; hence, well known, renowned: sometimes (like ycore) a vague epithet of commendation.
| a 1100 in Leg. Rood (1871) 3 Þa wearð hit sona þam mæran constantine þam kasere ᵹecyd. a 1122 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1093 Se cyng..wæs ofer eall dead ᵹekyd. c 1205 Lay. 24671 Þat nan lauerd taken nolde..Næuer nænne cniht,..Bute he icostned weoren Þrie inne compe, & his oht-scipen icudde. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 1295 Italde bi tale, fif siðe tene, icudde & icorene. Ibid. 1933 O icudd keiser! c 1315 Shoreham i. 633 Bote wanne þer hys o þyng yked, An oþer to onderstonde Þerinne. 13.. K. Alis. 3359 (Linc. Inn MS.) Y say Darie..Þat he was god knyȝt y kud. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 64 Þe king cortais i-kid cofliche saide. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. iv. 140 Bote he beo A Coke⁓wold I-kore [MS. H. ykyd] cut of boþe myn Eres! c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 4344 Y schal..haue wyþ me of ȝour knyȝtes .V. hundred gode y-kudde. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xiii. 196 A confessour ykud [MSS. M., T. i-kid] that couteþ nat a ruysshe Fere, ne famyne, ne false menne tonges. 14.. K. Sol. Bk. Wisd. 78 Wisdom yheled, litel is worþ oiþer treuþ ihyd; Bot boþe þai wexen swiþe ȝif þai ben y-kyd. |