YEDE

Verb

yede

(obsolete) simple past tense of go, now replaced by went.

Verb

yede

(obsolete or literary) To go (used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).

Anagrams

• eyed, yeed

Source: Wiktionary


Yede, obs. imp.

Definition: Went. See Yode. All as he bade fulfilled was indeed This ilke servant anon right out yede. Chaucer.

Note: Spenser and some later writers mistook this for a present of the defective imperfect yode. It is, however, only a variant of yode. See Yode, and cf. Yead. [He] on foot was forced for to yeed. Spenser

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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