pa. pple. of BELEAVE, to remain.

1

1340.  Ayenb., 225. Þe ilke þet is ybleued ine lyue he ssel him loki chastliche.

2

  Yblowe, yblown, blown.

3

1377, c. 1384.  [see BLOW v.1 13, 17 c].

4

14[?].  Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 245. Ther is a bitter blast yblowe.

5

1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. I. II. ix. Lest we … be yblown about with wanton wind.

6

  Yblynd(ed, blinded, blindfolded.

7

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 497. Yblynd wiþ þe blasynge of þe snowe.

8

1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 3681. Entendement Ys with Ire yblynded so.

9

c. 1489.  Caxton, Blanchardyn, xxx. 113. The handes ybounde & the eyen yblynded.

10

  Yblyndfalled: see BLINDFOLD v.

11

c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 3011. Gy of Borgoyngne þar afond y-blyndfalled, and by-bounde.

12

  Ybode(n, proclaimed, bidden, prayed.

13

a. 935.  Laws of Æthelstan, II. c. 20. Ʒif … hit beo seofon nihtum ær ʓeboden ær ðæt ʓemot sy.

14

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 69. Þurh festing and þurh wacunge and ec þurh ibodenes biddunge.

15

c. 1330.  Arth. & Merl., 493. Of mani noble he nam ȝeme, Þat he hadde y-boden flem.

16

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 111. Þre dayes fastynge y-bode for þat.

17

  Yboffeted, buffeted.

18

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 261. Þe nyȝt in whiche Crist was … i-buffeted [v.r. yboffeted].

19

  Ybonchyd, = BUNCHED, humped.

20

1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 18299. The bo[n]ch … with whiche this folke relygious bene ybonchyd.

21

  Ybontyd [BUNT v.3], sifted.

22

c. 1430.  Two Cookery-bks., 38. Take Almaunde mylke, & y-bontyd flour.

23

  Ybord v. pseudo-arch. [see Y- 3 and ABORD v. 2], to accost.

24

1768.  Downman, Land of Muses, xx.

        Them Alma gracefully y-bording, said,
Tell me, ye gentle pair, if ye have seen
Where widely your enchaunted feet have stray’d
Emong the mazes of this flowery green,
Where Fancy wonneth now?

25

  Yborȝe [Y- 4, BERGH], saved; hence Yborȝing, vbl. sb., salvatic 1.

26

1340.  Ayenb., 121. Vor tuo þinges is þe man yborȝe, be þe be-uliyoge of kueade and do þet guode. Ibid., 201. Þet his holy zaule … miȝte ysy and knawe god, and al þet him is niede and guod to his yborȝinge.

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