▪ I. † yhere, a. Obs. rare.
[repr. OE. *ᵹeh{iacu}ere, f. ᵹeh{iacu}eran: see next. Cf. MHG. gehœre.]
Obedient.
| c 1315 Shoreham i. 732 Þeȝ he ne be nauȝt yhere, Ac wykke. |
▪ II. † yhere, v. Obs.
Forms: see y- and hear v.
[OE. ᵹeh{iacu}eran, etc. = OS. gihôrian, MLG., MDu. gehoren, OHG. gahôrjan (MHG. gehœren, G. gehören with special sense-development, to belong), Goth. gahausjan: see y- 3 c and hear v. (The instances of the pa. pple. may belong to the simplex or the compound.)]
To hear.
| c 825 Vesp. Psalter ix. 38 [x. 17] Lustas heortan heara ᵹeherde eare ðin. Ibid. liv. 2 [lv. 1] Ᵹeher god ᵹebed min & ne forseh ðu boene mine. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xviii. 15 Ᵹyf he þe ᵹehyrð, þu ᵹestaþelast þinne broðor. c 1000 ælfric Saints' Lives xxxiii. 201 Ᵹehyredum þysum wordum hi ongunnon ealle weopan. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 5 Ȝe iherden er on þe godspel hu [etc.]. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 143 Nu ȝie habbeð iherd þes wimmanes name. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3440 Ac suþþe hii wonne al clene out as ȝe ssulle after yhure. c 1330 Assump. Virg. (B.M. MS.) 9 Par auenture ȝe haue noȝt iherde How oure ladi went out of þis werde. 1340 Ayenb. 265 Nou broþren and zostren y-hyreþ my red. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 355 Þe iuge swoor þat he hadde i-herde [MS. γ yhurd] suche tales of Zenocrates his mouth. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. v. 157 Loue..cryed vp-on conscience, þe kynge hit myghte yhure. 1422 Yonge tr. Secr. Secr. 235 Who-so hath a smale neke, he sholde haue a swete voyce and wel y-harde. |
▪ III. yhere (ȝhere)
obs. form of ear n.1