Obs. Also 4 wyke. [OE. wíce wk. fem.:—OTeut. *wīkōn-, f. wīk-: waik- to soften, to bend, turn, change, represented also in ON. vík WICK sb.4, OE. wicu WEEK sb., OE. wác, ON. veikr WOKE, WEAK; cf. L. vicēs change, turn, office, duty, Gr. εἶκειν to yield, f. Indo-Eur. weiq-: (See also -WICK suffix.)] An office, duty, function.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 592. Hu dear æniʓ læwede man him to ʓeteon þurh riccetere Cristes wican?
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 137. Oðer don scal wiken and cherres.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 91. Betfage … bitocneð holie chirche þat men noten inne here muðes wike þanne hie seien here sinnes.
c. 1205. Lay., 29752. Austin … haueð his cantel-cape on of Gregorie þan pape, and mid wurðscipe mucle haldeð his wike.
a. 1225. Juliana, 24. He me walde warpen ut of mine wike ant demen me to deaðe.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 605. Mine wike boþ wel gode. Ibid., 1179. Wat, quaþ ho, hartu ihoded?… For prestes wike ich wat þu dest.
c. 1275. Prov. Ælfred, 316, in O. E. Misc., 121. Wlanc on werȝe, and unwurþ on wike [Jesus MS. wlonk bi þe glede, and vuel at þare neode].
13[?]. K. Alis., 4592 (Laud MS.). Þerfore ne shulde no gentil kniȝth … beggers blood brynge in heiȝe wyke.
c. 1315. Shoreham, I. 660. Ase þe ryȝte bodyes lemes Habbeþ dyuerse wyke, So habbeþ ryȝt membrys eke Of þe body ine mystyke.
b. Comb. wike-tun, ? a place for divine service.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 730. Clerekes Munekes & canunes, Þar beoþ þos gode wike tunes, Ariseþ vp to middelnyhte.
