dwild

From Old English dwild (“error, heresy”).

dwild (plural dwild or dwilde or dwilden)

1. false belief, heresy, error

   Nu wærð swa mycel dwyld on Cristen dom swa it næfre ær ne wæs. — Peterborough Chronicle, 1131

2. an illusion, a false omen

   Feole dwild wearen ge seogen and ge heord — Peterborough Chronicle, 1122

• Middle English Dictionary

• dwyld

• IPA^(key): /dwild/, [dwiɫd]

dwild n

1. error
2. heresy

Strong a-stem:

• ġedwild n

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “DWILD”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.