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Possessed vs Wode - What's the difference?

possessed | wode |

As adjectives the difference between possessed and wode

is that possessed is by evil spirits while wode is (archaic) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

As a verb possessed

is (possess).

As a noun wode is

.

possessed

English

(wikipedia possessed)

Verb

(head)
  • (possess)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • by evil spirits.
    • He was exorcised because he was thought to be possessed by the Devil.
  • Seized by powerful emotions.
  • * 1719 , :
    • Oh, what ridiculous resolutions men take when possessed with fear!
  • Having; owning.
    • The president was possessed of great wealth.
  • *1854 , Dickens, Hard Times :
  • *:'Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!' said Mr Gradgrind, for the general behoof of all the little pitchers. 'Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals!'

    • Derived terms

    * self-possessed

    wode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * wood

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
  • * a''. 1588 , (Jasper Heywood), quoted in James Petite Andews, ''The History of Great Britain , published 1806
    • My hair stode up, I waxed wode , my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

    Etymology 2

    See woad

    Noun

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