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▪ I. † vild, n. Obs.—1
(Cf. next, but perh. an error.)
1605London Prodigal v. i. 265 My daughter is missing; hath been looked for; cannot be found. A vild upon thee!
▪ II. vild, a. Obs. exc. arch. or dial.|vaɪld|
Also 6–7 vylde, 6–7 (9) vilde; 6 Sc. vyild, 6–7 (9) vyld, 7 vil'd.
[Variant of vile a., with excrescent -d. The earliest instances are Scottish (cf. tylde for tile n.1), but the form is extremely common from c 1580 to 1650.]
= vile a., in various senses: a. Of actions, things, etc.
1560Rolland Seven Sages 48 The morne he sall go to the deid maist vylde, Howbeit he be my onlie gottin Chylde. 1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 35 Shall I be prest in simpler sort and vylder case then hee. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 24 Since whose vilde death manie a good Christian have bene no less vmbraded and reproched. 1598–9E. Forde Parismus i. (1661) 49 With great patience he endured the imprisonment, continuing in that most vilde place. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 38 Her breath should be as horrible and vild, As ev'rie word you speake is sweet and mild. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 158 A vild thing, thus to force and wrong Nature. 1713Croxall Orig. Canto Spenser xiv. (1714) 14 With Witch⁓craft vild he then enwrapt her round. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xxvi, O hide thy head, abominable war!.. From Heaven this life ysprung, from hell thy glories vild! 1767Mickle Concub. i. xx, Loud and angrie then Gan she of shame and haviour vild complain. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iii. xiii, Could he have had his pleasure vilde, He had crippled the joints of the noble child. 1853N. & Q. 1st Ser. VII. 234/1 (N. Cy. sayings), Looks as vild (worthless) as a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop. 1866T. Edmondston Gloss. Shetland, Vyld, dirty, filthy, vile.
b. Of persons.
1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 122 Quhen I was impotent, Fragile, vaine, vylde, and pure. 1581Rich Farew. (1846) 116 The desolate damsell..ceased not to rebuke the vilde caitive. 1588Babington Prof. Exp. Lord's Pr. (1596) 235 The good Prophet had a bad seruant, a vilde Gehezi. 1608Tarlton Cobler Canterb. (1844) 118 Vilde strumpet as thou art. 1628Gaule Pract. The. (1629) 11 Lo how the vildest Earth-Worme now turnes against thee! 1656Heylin Surv. France 324 That vilde Butcher [Herod] caus'd to cut in sunder Euery Male childe of two years old and under. 1767Mickle Concub. i. xxii, She..clept her Lemman and vild Slutt aloud. 1865L. Gidley Aletes 145 Their influence mild Withdraw from presence of those monsters base and vild, Intolerance and Injustice.
absol.1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 15 O thou dull God, why lyest thou with the vilde, In loathsome Beds? 1607― Timon i. i. 15 When we for recompence haue prais'd the vild.
▪ III. vild
obs. Sc. form of wild a. |