▪ I. † wonde, v.
Forms: 1–2 wandian, 4–5 wand(e, wond(e, (4 waand, want, 5 whonde, wound(e, woonde; Sc. 5 waynd(e, 5–6 waind).
[OE. wandian to shrink, hesitate, refrain, spare, corresp. to ON. vanda to make elaborately, make difficulties, find fault (cf. vandr difficult, etc., vandi difficulty, etc.): app. f. wand-, wend- to turn (see wand n., wend v., wind v.1; and cf. wandis v.).]
1. intr. To shrink or flinch for fear; to hesitate (esp. const. inf.); to refrain.
| c 897 ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xx. 149 Oft mon bið suiðe wandiᵹende æt ælcum weorce & suiðe lætræde. 971 Blickl. Hom. 43 [Sins] swiþe unsyferlice þæt se man wandaþ þæt he hi æfre asecgge. c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxvii. (Z.) 162 Uereor ic anðraciᵹe oððe ic wandiᵹe. a 1122 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1052 Ac he ne wandode na him metes to tylienne. a 1300 Cursor M. 4334 How sco broght him to þe fand, Forth to tell wil i noght waand. Ibid. 5293 For-þi, leue fader, want þou noght, Al þi will it sal be wroght. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1693 Also shal þe womman wonde To take [in marriage] here godmodrys husbonde. c 1330 King of Tars 898 The soudan tok the prest bi the honde, And bad him go and nothing wonde. c 1350 Will. Palerne 4071 For drede of duresse nor of deth in erþe, nel i wonde in no wise what i þouȝt to seie. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 1187 Dido, Loue wil loue, for no thing wele it wande. c 1400 Destr. Troy 590, I wole..Do my deuer yf I dar, & for no dethe wonde. Ibid. 3380 Wond of þi weping, whipe vp þi teris. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. 3961 (MS. W.) Scho wayndit nocht þare feit to wesche. c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 198 Quhar he fand ane..To cutt his throit, or steik hym sodanlye. He wayndyt nocht. c 1500 Melusine 219 But the duc Anthony wanded. a 1510 Douglas K. Hart i. 91 Richt as the rose vpspringis fro the rute,..Nor waindis nocht the levis to outschute. |
2. trans. To refrain from; to shrink from, avoid, shun; to refuse.
| 13.. Cursor M. 8361 (Gött.) He..bad hir say, ne wond it noght, Quat war best as hir thoght. c 1315 Shoreham Poems i. 2031 Ne hy ne wondeþ messeday, Ne none holy tyde. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 268 This worthi kniht with swerd on honde His weie made, and thei him wonde. c 1430 Syr Tryam. 1526 My ryght name schalle y not wande. c 1450 Erle Tolous 1155 Soche wordes y rede thou wonde. ? a 1500 Chester Plays (E.E.T.S.) xxiii. 29 His wickednes he would not wonde [v.r. wound], Till he was taken and putt in Band. |
Hence † wonding vbl. n., flinching, hesitation.
| c 1440 York Myst. xxviii. 77 Nowe will we lere, Full warely to were ȝou fro alle wandynge. |
▪ II. wonde
irreg. pa. tense of win v.1
| 1571 Fortescue Forest of Hist. 65 Who so wonde [ed. 1576 wan] then the price. |