† wel-dede Obs.
Forms: 1 wel-dǽd, 2–4 weldede (wel-dede, wel dede).
[OE. weldǽd = MDu. weldaet (Du. weldaad; LG. woldâd, WFris. woldied), OHG. wolatât (MHG. woltât, G. wohltat), Goth. wailadēds: see well adv. and deed n.]
A good deed; a benefit.
| a 1000 Phœnix 543 [Hie] stiᵹað to wuldre wlitiᵹe ᵹewyrtad mid hyra wel-dædum. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 346 Do well on eallum ðinum life, and we siððan æfter ðinum wel⁓dædum bliðne ðe eft ᵹenimað to us. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 131 Vre lauerd seinte paul..munegeð..to godes worde and to weldede. c 1205 Lay. 3160 Worðschepe haue þu þire wel⁓deda. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 62 For-þi I lere ȝou, lordynges, such writynge ȝe leue, To writen in Wyndouwes of ȝoure wel dedes. |