Obs. Forms: α. 1–2 ʓewuna, 4 ywon(e, 5 iwone; β. 3 wune, 4–5 won, wonne, wone. [OE. ʓewuna = OS. giwono (MDu. ghewône, Du. giwoon), OHG. giwon: f. ʓe-, Y- + wun-, WON v.]
1. Accustomed, used, wont (to do something).
α. c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark x. 1. Sicut consueverat, suæ þætte he ʓewuna wæs.
a. 1122. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1006. Dydon eall swa hi ær ʓewuna wæron.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 176. Why he nold with hem come, So he tofore was ywone.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 188. Þerl a gret fest held At Warwike in þat cite, Þat þan was y-won to be.
c. 1400. Sowdone Bab., 358. For ever he was thereto I-wone, To do Cristen men grete pyne.
β. c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3569. And Iosu cam him a-gen, Als he was ilc dai wune to don.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 1384. Þe pine to bere a frut es won. Ibid., 2861. Þar þaa fiue cites war won to be Es noght now bot a stinkand see.
c. 1300. Havelok, 2151. He … was here king, þat was hem wone Wel to yeme.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, IV. 246. [Satan] as he all tyme wes wone, In-to dissat maid his ansuer.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xxxii. 5516. Folk, þat was noucht wone To se sic awant … Abayssit of þat sicht þai war.
c. 1450. Capgrave, Life St. Aug., 23. Þe heruest dayes wer ny whan skole is wone to cese.
a. 1500. Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (? 1510), U iij b. And hayle that to fal is wone The eyght daye of the mone.
2. Customary, usual. rare.
This is a doubtful sense assumed from such phrases as as it is wone, where wone is orig. and prob. always WONE sb.2 (cf. quot. c. 1290 in sense 2).
c. 1205. Lay., 11184. He dude alse hit is wune, he streonede hire on enne sone.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 83. Roberd Courthose his sonne he gaf all Normundie, To hold, as it was wonne, als heyre of ancestrie.
Wone v.1: see WON v.
