† aweddeadj.
Obsolete.
Overcome with anger, madness, or distress; insane, mentally disturbed.
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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry
grim971
aweddeOE
woodlyc1000
anburstc1275
woodc1275
aburstc1300
eagerc1325
brotheful1330
brothely1330
furiousc1374
wroth as (the) wind1377
throc1380
fella1382
wrothlya1400
grindelc1400
raginga1425
furibund1490
bremit1535
outraging1567
fulminant?1578
wood-like1578
horn-mad1579
snuff1582
woodful1582
maddeda1586
rageful1585
furibundal1593
gary1609
fierce1611
wild1653
infuriate1667
hopping mad1675
maddened1735
sulphureous1751
savage1789
infuriated1796
bouncing mad1834
frenzy1859
furyinga1861
ropeable1870
furied1878
fulminous1886
livid1888
fit to be tied1894
hopping1894
fighting mad1896
tamping mad1946
up the wall1951
ravers1967
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging
aweddeOE
woodc1000
woodlyc1000
wildc1300
franticc1390
ramage1440
welling woodc1440
staringc1449
rammistc1455
rabious1460
horn-wood?a1500
rammisha1500
enragea1522
frenzic1547
wood-like1578
horn-mad1579
woodful1582
frenzicala1586
ragefula1586
rabid1594
ravening1599
ravenous1607
Pythic1640
exorbitant1668
frenziful1726
haggard-wild1786
frenzied1796
maenadic1830
berserk1867
up the wall1951
ballistic1981
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) viii. 69 Heo gelyfde þæt drihten mihte hire aweddan dohtor gehælan.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9749 Þæs ilke awedde hundes walden eouwere londes.
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) l. 400 Wiues þer lay on child-bedde, Sum ded & sum awedde.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.OE