Now Hist. Forms: 7–9 waywode, -wood, weywode, (7 weiwode, 8 weyvode, -wod), 8–9 waiwode, (8 waivod, woewood). [Var. of VAIVODE, repr. an early Magyar form of a common Slavonic title of office. Cf. mod.L. wayvoda.] = VOIVODE.
1661. Mercurius Caled., in Sir A. Boswell’s Poet. Wks. (1871), 64. There is a considerable number of horses to carry on the work of the day; among others, a Waywood of Polonia hath a Tartarian horse.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 7. The Weywode or Governour of Novogorod.
1739. Elton, in Hanway’s Trav. (1762), I. I. iv. 11. We arrived at the city of Saratoff, and waited on the Weyvode.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., II. xii. Note, Lusieri has laid his complaint before the Waywode.
1837. Alison, Hist. Europe, xvii. (1848), V. 13. Their waywodes or military chieftains [in Poland].
1905. A. I. Shand, in Sat. Rev., 21 Oct., 522/2. There were hospodars in Wallachia and waywodes in Moldavia.
¶ b. = WAYWODESHIP.
1837. Alison, Hist. Europe, xvii. (1848), V. 11. The waywodes and palatinates into which every province was divided [in Poland] … became divided against each other.
Hence Waywodeship [-SHIP], the province or district ruled by a waywode.
1684. Scanderbeg Rediv., iv. 62. [He] returned his thanks to the several Waywodeships.
1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 3988/1. General Reinschild … is marching towards the Weywoodship of Cracow.
1908. Jos. Mailáth, in Contemp. Rev., Aug., 226. The Servians desired to transform the territory inhabited by them into a Servian waywodeship (principality).
