Obs. Also 5 waneand, wanyende, wenyand(e, 5–6 wanyand, 6 waniant, wanniaunt, weniand, -ya(u)nt. [ME. waniand, north. pres. pple. of wanien, WANE v. See the definition.] In the phrase in the waniand, prob. with ellipsis of mone (cf. ‘on waniʓendum monan’ Sax. Leechd., I. 320) = at the time of the waning moon, i.e., in an unlucky hour; hence used as a vague imprecation or as an exclamation of anger, impatience, etc. = ‘with a vengeance,’ ‘with a plague.’ Also in the wild waniand. See WANION; also WANING vbl. sb. 2 b, WANING ppl. a. 1 b.
a. 1357. Minot, Poems, v. 30. In þe wilde waniand was þaire hertes light. Ibid., ix. 25. It was in þe waniand þat þai furth went.
c. 1430. Brut, 441. But þe moste vengeance fell vpon þe proude Scottes, for thei went to Dog-wash the same day…; So that they may say wele ‘In the croke of þe mone went thei thidre warde, And in the wilde wanyende come þei homewarde.’
c. 1440. York Myst., vii. 45. We! Whythir now in wilde waneand. Ibid., xxxiii. 485. Furth in þe wylde wanyand be walkand.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xx. 748. Step furth, in the wenyande!
1529. More, Suppl. Soules, 16 b. He wold of lyklyhod bynde them to cartes and bete them, and make them wed in the wanyand.
1540. Palsgr., Acolastus, II. i. I ij b. Go hens in to yl crosse … walke or pycke the hens in the galowes name, or in the weniand, or in the .xx, deuyll waye.
1570. Levins, Manip., 25/23. Ye Wenyant, in malam crucem.
b. With a wanyand: cf. WANION.
1563–70. Foxe, A. & M., II. 1311/1. The Pope … sent into Fraunce Hildebrand, hys Cardinall Chapleine…, and made him with a wanyand to come agayne coram nobis.
