Obs. Forms: 1 yfelan, -ian, 2 uvelien, 3 i-uvelen, 4 evel-, yl(en, 5 evel, -yl. [ME. uvelien (ü), OE. yfelian, f. yfel, EVIL a.]
1. trans. To do evil to; to harm or injure; to ill-treat; to affect with disease.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. lxxxii[i]. 3. And ehtunga ealle hæfdon, hu hi þine halʓan her yfeladan. Ibid., cvi[i]. 38. Næs heora neata nan ʓeyfelad.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 15. Ne scal us na mon uuelien þer uore.
c. 1205. Lay., 31774. Ær þe uisc i-eten weore i-uueled was þe king.
c. 1435. Torr. Portugal, 1843. Thou shalte lyve and wel fare, Yf the nothing evylle.
2. intr. a. To grow bad (morally). b. To fall ill; to be ill or sick.
1002–23. Wulfstan, Addr. to Eng. (ed. Napier), 156. Ðeos woruld … sceal … ær Antecristes tocyme yfeljan swiðe.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 8032. She euylde, And deyde sunner þan she wylde.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 81. In Ynde beeþ men of fyue cubites long, þat eueleþ nouȝt, noþer ȝildeþ vp þe breeþ.
14[?]. trans. Higden (Rolls), VII. 516 (Harl. MS. 1900). The duke eueled so in the wey.
