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▪ I. † hede Obs.
Also hed.
[ME. hede:—OE. type *hǽdu (acc. hǽde) fem., beside hád masc.; corresp. to MHG. heit fem., OHG. hait, heit, m. and f., ‘person, order, rank, position’, Goth. haidus, masc., ‘manner, way’. See had n., -head suffix.]
1. Rank, order, condition, quality.
a1300Cursor M. 21220 [Barnabas] wan vn-to þe apostlis hede. Ibid. 21700 Suld haf þe preistes hede wit dome. a1400Sir Perc. 1103 Blode rede was his stede, His aktone and his other wede, His cote of the same hede.
2. By entering into combination with qualifying adj., or with n., it became a suffix, ME. -hede, mod.Eng. -head, Sc. -heid: see -head.
a1100O.E. Chron. an. 1070 Þurh heora druncen hed on an niht for bærnde þa cyrce. c1250Gen. & Ex. 56 On miȝt and on godfulhed. Ibid. 1852 Sichem tok hire maiden⁓hed. a1300Cursor M. 6949 (Gött.) His sone Elyazar was neist, And bar þe state of his fadir hede. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (1494) ii. xlvi, The fairhede of angels. 1535Coverdale Zech. xi. 14 The brotherheade betwixte Iuda and Israel. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 54 Chyldheid.
▪ II. hede
obs. form of head n.1, heed. |