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▪ I. † weste, n.
[Reduced form of OE. wésten (see western n.2), or f. next.]
A desert, wilderness.
c1200Ormin 11747 Þær i þe wesste þær he wass Himm ane. Ibid. 17408 Alls he comm wiþþ all þe follc Inntill a wilde wesste. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 127 On his ȝuweðe he fleh fro folke to weste. Ibid., Weste was his wunienge.
▪ II. † weste, a. Obs.
Also 3 west.
[OE. wéste, earlier wœ́ste = OFris. wôste (WFris. woast), MDu. and Du. woest, OS. wôsti (MLG. wôst, wûst, LG. wöst), OHG. wôsti, wuosti (MHG. wüeste, G. wüst), f. the stem *wōst-, related to L. vāstus: see waste a.]
1. Of places: Uninhabited and uncultivated or untended; desert, desolate, waste.
Beowulf 2456 [He] ᵹesyhð sorhceariᵹ..winsele westne. c825Vesp. Psalter lxviii. 26 Sie eardung heara woestu. Ibid. lxxiv. 7 From woestum muntum. c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. xv. 52 Is sæd of þære tide..þæt hit [sc. þæt land] weste wuniᵹe. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 15 Ðeos stowe ys weste. c1200Ormin 1417 All forrþi wass heoffness ærd Swa summ itt wesste wære. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 127 He..þerfore ferde into weste wilderne. c1205Lay. 10591 Al þat lond heo makeden west. Ibid. 17330 Ich wulle..maken him weste paðes & wildernes monie. c1250Owl & Night. 1528 Wowes weste [v.r. west] and lere huse. a1300Maximian 211 (MS. Digby 86) Þis world me þinkeþ west.
2. west(e) land, waste land; desert.
c1030Sherburn Surv. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) Jan. 18 Ond þys synd weste land: Ane is Sal-leᵹe; oðer is Grante-leᵹe. c1200Ormin 9239 Sannt Johan i wessteland Wass wurrþenn cuþ þatt time. Ibid. 11429 All swa summ wessteland iss all Forrworrpenn & forrlætenn. c1205Lay. 16268 He funde west lond [c 1275 in west lond], leoden of-slæȝene.
▪ III. † weste, v. Obs.
[OE. wéstan (:—wōstjan: see weste a.) = OS. (â)wôstian, OHG. wuostan (MHG. wuesten G. wüsten).]
trans. To lay waste.
c893ælfred Oros. i. x. §1 Hie..wæron fiftene ᵹear þæt lond heriᵹende & westende. c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxxviii. 7 Hi..his wic-stede westan. Ibid. lxxix. 13 Hine.. wilde deor westað and frettað. c1205Lay. 1754 Þus heo westen þat lond. Ibid. 20941 Heo..sæiden þat heo wolden..westen Arðures lond. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3915 Ðis folc..his lond tok,..And westen al to flum iordan.
▪ IV. weste
obs. pa. tense and pple. of wish v., wit v.1 |