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† wanspeed Obs.
[OE. wanspéd: see wan- and speed n.]
Ill-success; adversity, poverty.
c893ælfred Oros. iii. vii. §6 On þæm ᵹefeohte wæs ærest anfunden Sciþþia wanspeda [L. inopiæ Scythicæ]. a1050Liber Scintill. (1889) 226 Wer feohtende ateoriᵹende þurh wanspede [L. per inopiam]. a1300Cursor M. 23708 Yee cristen men, yow vmbilok,..O yur lijf þat yee her lede Yee turn it noght into wan-spede! Ibid. 28175 O strif oft haue i sauun þe sede To bring my brother to wan-spede. c1400Destr. Troy 9327 What whylenes, or wanspede, wryxles our mynd? |