Obs. Also 4 -ere, 5 -ar, waryare, 6 weriour. [f. WARY v. + -ER1.] One who curses.
1382. Wyclif, Ps. xxi. 17. The counseil of warieris [Vulg. concilium malignantium] besegide me. Ibid., 1 Cor. v. 11. A … cursere [gloss] or wariere [Vulg. maledicus].
c. 1410. Lantern of Light, 131. War[i]ars, cursars, schidars, sclaundirars & blasfemars.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 516/2. Waryare, or bannare, imprecator, -trix, anathematizator, maledicus.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, etc. (1874), IV. 226. That, ȝou to pleys, I set all schame behind, Offeryng me to my weriouris wilfully.
