ˈsibred Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: α. 1 sibreden, 5 -redin, sybredyn(e; 4–5 sib(be)radyn. β. 3–5 sibrede, 4–5 sybrede (5 cybrede, sybreed), 6 sybrade; 4 sibred, 5–6 syb(b)red, 6 sybberid, 7 sibbered; 7 sibrit, 9 dial. sibberet(s), sib(b)ret(s), -rit(s), etc. γ. Sc. 5 sibrend, sibrent.
[See sib a. and -red, and cf. gossipred.]
1. Relationship, kinship, consanguinity.
| α 1127 O.E. Chron. an. 1127, Þe ilce Willelm hæfde æror numen ðes eorles dohter of Angeow to wife, oc hi wæron siððan to-tweamde for sibreden. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 691 For the sybredyne of me, fore-sake noghte this offyce. c 1400 Destr. Troy 10326 Þurgh sibradyn first, Thou was aliet to þat lynage. 1483 Cath. Angl. 338/2 A Sybredyn, consanguinitas. |
| β 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10108 Þulke ȝer þe king him let vor sibrede to dele. a 1300 Cursor M. 12674 Iesu broþer cald was he For sibred, wirschip, and bunte. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 284 Every man it scholde drede, And nameliche in his Sibrede. c 1425 Eng. Conq. Ireland 42 All other,..that sybrede or other frendshypp hadden to hym,..weren I-dryue out of englond. c 1470 Harding Chron. cxxix, But for sibrede & consanguinitee They were departed by papall iudgement. |
| transf. 1575 Laneham Lett. (1871) 4 Ioyning these too togither, with the nighness allso of the woords, and sybred of the toongs. |
| γ c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ii. i. 75 Til sibrent [v.r. sibrend] haffande na knawlage And but al reuerens of maryage. |
2. E. Angl. dial. The banns of marriage.
Prob. from the mention, in the banns, of ‘sibred’ as an impediment to the marriage.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 455/1 Sybrede,..banna. c 1440 Jacob's Well 21 Alle, þat..don swyche weddynges be solemnysed, & wyth-oute syb-redes, in cherchys, in chapellys, or in oratoriis. 1513 Will of Poly (Somerset Ho.), If she bee maried as sone as hir sybbred bee asked. 1674 Ray S. & E.C. Words 76 Sibberidge, or Sibbered; the Banes of Matrimony, Suff. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 348 Sibrit, banns of matrimony. 1860 A. Strickland Old Friends 214 After their sibright was out-asked. 1884 J. S. Orton Beeston Ghost 4 T'will be a precious long awhile afore the paarson axes my sibbret. |