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yede en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English yede, from Old English ēode.

Meanings

1. (form-of, obsolete, past) simple past of go, now replaced by went.
   form of go
   form of now replaced by went
2. (literary, obsolete) To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
   • The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide; 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 232:

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