waywode Now Hist.
(ˈweɪwəʊd)
Forms: 7–9 waywode, -wood, weywode, (7 weiwode, 8 weyvode, -wod), 8–9 waiwode, (8 waivod, woewood).
[Var. of vaivode, repr. an early Magyar form of a common Slavonic title of office. Cf. mod.L. wayvoda.]
= voivode.
| 1661 Mercurius Caled. in Sir A. Boswell's Poet. Wks. (1871) 64 There is a considerable number of horses to carry on the work of the day; among others, a Waywood of Polonia hath a Tartarian horse. 1662 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 7 The Weywode or Governour of Novogorod. 1739 Elton in Hanway's Trav. (1762) I. i. iv. 11 We arrived at the city of Saratoff, and waited on the Weyvode. 1812 Byron Ch. Har. ii. xii. Note, Lusieri has laid his complaint before the Waywode. 1837 Alison Hist. Europe xvii. (1848) V. 13 Their waywodes or military chieftains [in Poland]. 1905 Sat. Rev. 21 Oct. 522/2 There were hospodars in Wallachia and waywodes in Moldavia. |
¶ b. = waywodeship.
| 1837 Alison Hist. Europe xvii. (1848) V. 11 The waywodes and palatinates into which every province was divided [in Poland]..became divided against each other. |
Hence ˈwaywodeship [-ship], the province or district ruled by a waywode.
| 1684 Scanderbeg Rediv. iv. 62 [He] returned his thanks to the several Waywodeships. 1704 Lond. Gaz. No. 3988/1 General Reinschild..is marching towards the Weywoodship of Cracow. 1908 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 226 The Servians desired to transform the territory inhabited by them into a Servian waywodeship. |