Obs. Also 3–4 kud(de, 4 ked. [pa. pple. of KITHE v.] Made known, mentioned, declared, renowned; well-known; famous; notorious: see also KITHE v. 5. (Freq. in alliterative poetry.)
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 342. Habbeð … to ower bihoue, þesne lutle laste ende, of alle kudde and kuðe sunnen.
1340–70. Alisaunder, 556. Whan his menskfull menne might nought fynde Hur ked King in Egipt, carefull þei were.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 11. Þe kud king of spayne was kindely his fader.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xliii. (Cecile), 393. Iubitere … þe name of a murtherere & of a kyd houlloure.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 65. Aftyre at Carlelele a Cristynmese he haldes, This ilke kyde conquerour.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1229. Caulus, an other knyght on a ked stede.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 2124. Knightes in our cuntre kyddist in Armys.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., II. v. 388. Threpyt thai ware spyis Or to the kyng kyd innymys.
15[?]. Proph. Merling, in Whole Proph. Scot. (1603). He shall be kid conquerour, for he is kende Lord, Of all Bretaine that bounds to the broad Sea.
[1875. J. A. H. Murray, Thomas of Erceldoune, Introd. p. xxviii. The belief in the ‘kyd conqueror’ yet to come must have cheered the Cumbrian Britons during the long struggle.]
