Obs. Also 3 widene, 4 wydene. [OE. wídan, f. wíd WIDE a. Cf. OHG. wîteno, MHG. wîten(e, also wîtenan.] In OE., from far; in ME., widely, far and wide.
932, c. 1205. [see SIDEN].
c. 1000. in Kemble, Cod. Dipl. (1845), III. 315. He his witan widan ʓesomnod hæfde.
c. 1205. Lay., 112. Eneas þe duc mid his driht folcke widen iwalken ȝend þt wide water. Ibid., 161. ꝥ word … ꝥ was widene cuð.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. Prol. 4. In Habite of an Hermite … Wende I wydene in þis world wondres to here.
