Forms: 1 tídan, 3–5 tiden (3–4 tyd, 4 tid, 4–5 tyden, 4–7 tyde, 5 tydyn), 3– tide; pres. t. 3rd sing. (for tideh) 3–4 tit, tyt, tyd, 4 tid, 5 tite, tytte. Pa. t. 1–4 tidde, 4 tydde, tyd (6 Sc.), 4–5 tid (5 tyde, tide), 8– tided. Pa. pple. 3–4 tid (4–5 tyd(d, tidde, 5 tide, 6 tydde), 7– tided. [OE. tídan (oftener ʓetídan: see I-TIDE) to happen, come about, f. tíd, TIDE sb. Perfect tenses usually formed with be: cf. COME v.]
1. intr. To happen, befall: = BETIDE v. 1. Often impersonal. arch.
a. 1131. O. E. Chron., an. 1123. Þa tidde hit on an Wodnes dei … þet se king rad in his der fald.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8649. He … nolde no leng abide Þat be nolde to is game, tide wat so bitide.
13[?]. Cursor M., 27412 (Cott.). For nakin case þat mai tide.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, I. 127. Ȝe traistyt in lawte,… And wyst nocht quhat suld eftir tyd.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 3655. Of theire termys they talke, how þay ware tydd.
14[?]. Sir Beues (MS. M), 663. Tyde what wyll be-tyde The tone of vs shall dede abyde.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 493/2. Tydyn, idem quod happyn.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., vi. 81. May tyde he wille oure giftis take.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. v. 98. How tyde that cais; declair me, I pray the.
1680. A. Haig, in J. Russell, Haigs, xi. (1881), 309. Com what will com, tyde what may tyde, A Haig shall be Laird of Bemersyde.
1808. Scott, Marm., III. xxii. Soothly I swear, that, tide what tide, The demon shall a buffet bide.
1875. Jas. Grant, One of the 600, ii. You … shall find that, tide what may, you are not forgotten.
b. const. with dative: = BETIDE v. 1 b. Obs.
c. 1000. Inst. Polity, c. 10, in Thorpe, Ags. Laws, II. 316. Þæt heora ʓewitan beon on æʓhwylcne timan, weald hwæt heom tide.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 29. Witte wel hwat þu hauest, walte hwat þe tide.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 4977. Al his lond him tit for-go.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XI. 5. (MS. Rawl.). A merueillous meteles me tydde to dreme.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, I. 255. Euery caas That hym was tyd vpon the see.
c. 1430. R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), App. G. 213. Þi lyf þe tydeþ luse.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon, xiii. 14. Some deadly act shall ’tide me ere I sleep.
† 2. To fall as a lot or portion. (Const. dative.)
955. in Birch, Cart. Sax., III. 75. ʓif þan biscop[e] hwæt tide.
a. 1272. Luue Ron, 20, in O. E. Misc., 93. Her he haueþ seorewen ryue, Ne tyt him neuer Ro ne Rest.
c. 1300. St. Margarete, 308. Bote þu do þis dede Ne lyt þe no part wiþ me.
c. 1305. St. Swithin, 48, in E. E. P. (1862), 44. Ho so doþ his dede mid bobance, him ne tyt non oþer mede.
c. 1325. Poem Times Edw. II., 236, in Pol. Songs (Camden), 334. He doth the wif sethe a chapoun and piece beof, Ne tit the gode man noht therof.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 255. This lange nyght ther tydes me na reste.
† 3. To fare; to get on (well or ill). Obs. rare–1.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 1202. The Troiens were tyde, & tid þere þe bettur.
¶ 4. trans. To meet with, experience (good or evil fortune). Obs.
This appears to be an erroneous use, originating with copyists who misunderstood the construction.
a. 1400. R. Brunne’s Chron. Wace (Rolls), 5495 (Petyt MS.). For chances þat haf ben tyd [Lamb. MS. ffor swylke chaunces þat han bytid].
a. 1400. Sir Beues, 1844. Go, or þe tit [v.r. þou tytyst] an euel diner.
c. 1472. Chaucer’s Compl. Mars, 202 (MS. Arch. Seld. B. 24). In mony a cas thay tiden oft tyme sorowe [Fairfax and 2 other MSS. hem tydeth, ed. Jul. Notary hem tyden].
