Obs. Forms: see Y- and HEAR v. [OE. ʓehíeran, etc. = OS. gihôrian, MLG., MDu. gehoren, OHG. gahôrjan (MHG. gehœren, G. gehören with special sense-development, to belong), Goth. gahausjan: see Y- 3 c and HEAR v. (The instances of the pa. pple. may belong to the simplex or the compound.)] To hear.
c. 825. Vesp. Psalter, ix. 38 [x. 17]. Lustas heortan heara ʓeherde eare ðin. Ibid., liv. 2 [lv. 1]. Ʒeher god ʓebed min & ne forseh ðu boene mine.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xviii. 15. Ʒyf he þe ʓehyrð, þu ʓestaþelast þinne broðor.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxxiii. 201. Ʒehyredum þysum wordum hi ongunnon ealle weopan.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 5. Ȝe iherden er on þe godspel hu [etc.].
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 143. Nu ȝie habbeð iherd þes wimmanes name.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 3440. Ac suþþe hii wonne al clene out as ȝe ssulle after yhure.
c. 1330. Assump. Virg. (B.M. MS.), 9. Par auenture ȝe haue noȝt iherde How oure ladi went out of þis werde.
1340. Ayenb., 265. Nou broþren and zostren y-hyreþ my red.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 355. Þe iuge swoor þat he hadde i herde [MS. γ yhurd] suche tales of Zenocrates his mouth.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. V. 157. Loue … cryed vp-on conscience, þe kynge hit myghte yhure.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secr. Secr., 235. Who-so hath a smale neke, he sholde haue a swete voyce and wel y-harde.
