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wilder, v. arch. (now chiefly poet.)|ˈwɪldə(r)|
[Of uncertain origin: prob. (by an unusual process) extracted from wilderness on the analogy of the form of wander; but cf. MDu. verwilderen, frequent. of verwilden (f. ver- for- prefix1 + wilde, wilt wild a.), and G. wildern. It has been frequently apprehended as an aphetic f. bewilder (which is later in appearance), and occas. spelt 'wilder.]
1. trans. To cause to lose one's way, as in a wild or unknown place; to lead or drive astray; refl. to lose one's way, go astray.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage viii. ix. 653 Unknowne Lands, where we have wildered our selves. a1620J. Dyke Sel. Serm. (1640) 138 They had been in danger of being wilderd, of losing their way. 1687Dryden Hind & P. ii. 682 This she desir'd her to accept and stay, For fear she might be wilder'd in her way. 1717Addison tr. Ovid's Met. iii. 236 Young Actæon, wilder'd in the wood. 1796Southey Hymn to the Penates 96 O ye whom Youth has wilder'd on your way. 1819Shelley New Nat. Anthem iv, 'Wilder her enemies In their own dark disguise.
b. fig.; esp. to render at a loss how to act, or what to think; to perplex, bewilder.
1642D. Rogers Naaman 55 Having himselfe sent for him to his house, when he was wildred. 1648–9Eikon Bas. xv. 131 Extravagances wherewith some men have now even wildred..both Church and State. 1654E. Johnson Wonder-wkg. Provid. ii. 4 You shall be left wildred and strange Revelations. 1701Collier M. Aurel. 259 His Understanding, being misty and misled, he was willdred in the Qualities of Things, and mistook the Nature of Good and Evil. 1811Shelley St. Irvyne Pr. Wks. 1888 I. 218 Wolfstein,..wildered by the suscitated energies of his soul almost to madness. 1816― Alastor 139 To her cold home Wildered, and wan, and panting, she returned. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid iv. 69 Over the city she wanders, the sad Queen, wildered of thought.
2. intr. To lose one's way, go astray, stray, wander; to be bewildered; to move or extend in a confused way.
1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. ii. 39 A heavy curse, did we rightly judge of it, to wander and wilder in a maze of errour. a1734North Life Dudley North (1744) 200 He used the Room above to wilder in his Accounts. 1805Scott Last Minstr. i. Introd. iv, And scenes long past of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain. 1838S. Bellamy Betrayal v. 166 A fornix vast, that rangeless from the eye Ran wildering. 1854Lowell Cambr. 30 Yrs. Ago Writ. 1890 I. 96 The fierce snow-storm wildering without.
b. trans. with adv. To spend or waste in ‘wildering’.
1668Owen Expos. 130th Ps. 131 So he wilders away all his dayes in uncertainties.
†3. trans. and intr. To render, or become, wild or uncivilized. Obs. rare.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VI. 550 The yoke of the Egyptians had degraded the Hebrews into the rudest and worst of nations, wildered by three hundred years of neglect. 1804― in Crit. Rev. I. 20 Her dole-lands..will again be suffered to wilder into sheep walks. 1806― in Ann. Rev. IV. 111 European families transported to Canada must wilder in a generation or two. |