Sc. and † north. Also 4 weirrd, werd, wired, wiird, 6 waird, 8 weerd, 9 wierd; 7 pa. pple. weard. [f. WEIRD sb.]
1. trans. To preordain by the decree of fate; esp. in pass. to be destined or divinely appointed to, into, or unto (with inf. or sb.).
a. 1300. Cursor M., 23368. Ne hert mai think þaa ioies sere, þat iesus crist has dight til his, þat weirrded er vnto þe bliss. Ibid., 25225. All þe men þat werded es for to be broght into þi blis.
1678. Ray, Prov. (ed. 2), 360. (Sc. Prov.) A man may wooe where he will, but he will wed where he is weard [ed. 1, where his hap is].
1742. R. Forbes, Ajax Sp. (1755), 14. These darts that weerded were To tak the town o’ Troy.
1885. J. Lumsden, Rural Rhymes, 236. Gin the gude Mr. Hootsman is weirdit to be married a third time neist week.
2. To assign to (a person) as his fate; to apportion as one’s destiny or lot.
c. 1550. Clariodus (Maitl. Club), I. 1030. The Waird Sisteris … wairdit me, gif ane knave chyld war I, That efter I was sevin ȝeiris old To be transformit in ane lyoun bold.
a. 1800. Kempion, iii. in Scott, Minstrelsy (1802), II. 93. I weird ye to a fiery beast, And relieved sall ye never be, Till [etc.].
1806. Jamieson, Pop. Ballads, I. 238. Say … what the doom sae dire, that thou Doest wierd to mine or me?
a. 1869. C. Spence, Fr. Braes of Carse (1898), 182. A lesson teaching poor and rich That nane should weird ill to a witch.
3. To warn or advise by the knowledge of coming fate.
1806. Jamieson, Pop. Ballads, I. 237. I wierd ye, gangna there! Ibid., II. 174. I weird thee, to lat me be were best.
Hence Weirded ppl. a.; Weirding vbl. sb. in Comb. weirding peas, peas employed in divination.
1804. Tarras, Poems, 68. Jock Din is to the yard right sly, To saw his wierdin piz.
1820. Scott, Monast., xvii. Say, what hath forged thy wierded [footn. fated] link of destiny with the House of Avenel?
