Wont pa. pple. and ppl. a.

Forms: α. 1 ʓewunod, -ad, -ed, 2–3 iwuned, 2–5 iwoned, 3–4 ywoned, 4–5 ywond(e (5 i-, ywonyd); 3 wuned, 4 wonde, 4–5 woned, -yd, 5 woond, 7 won’d, wond, wouned. β 3 iwunet, iwonet, 4–5 iwont (4 iwonte, ywont, 5 ywonet); 4–6 wunt, wount, wonte, (4 wonnt, wonþ, Sc. vont, 4–5 wnt, 5 won(n)et, w(o)unte, 6 wante), 5–7 woont(e, 4– wont. [OE. ʓewunod, pa. pple. of ʓewunian WON v.]

  A.  pa. pple. † 1. Accustomed, used to, familiar with (a thing, practice or condition). Obs.

c. 888.  Ælfred, Boeth., i. His mod … to þam woruldsælþum ʓewunod wæs.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., II. 278. Næs þæt Israhela folc ʓewunod to hreawum flæsce.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 181. Ac hwanne hit [sc. the child] beð þarto wuned, hit wepeð þe lasse.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 28462. Til tauerne huse my-seluen was wont.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., IV. pr. iv. (1868), 128. Þei han hire eyen so wont to derkenesse of erþely þinges. Ibid. (c. 1386), Clerk’s T., 283. She neuere was to swiche gestes woned.

a. 1400.  Theophilus, xxi. in Engl. Studien, XXXII. 8.

c. 1450.  Holland, Howlat, 164. Cardinalis … With red hattis on hed, in haile takynning Off that deir dignite, with worschipe ay wont.

c. 1520.  Barclay, Jugurth, lvii. 83. From his youth he was euer wont with hardnesse, hunger, thyrst, and labour.

  2.  Conjugated with the verb ‘to be,’ and const. inf. (with or less freq. without to): Accustomed, used; in the habit of (doing something).

  α.  c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 143. Vre drihten wile cumen … and wile for-berne alle his fon and heom þet beoð iwunede uuel to done.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 12695. Ær wass he wunedd offte To cumenn till þe flumm till himm.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 1431. Gwider vr king of þis lond is truage athuld sone Of rome þat is eldore were iwoned [v.rr. ywond, ywonte, wonnte, wonte] to done.

13[?].  Sir Beues (A.), 3776. Whan wer we woned be by-hinde?

1340.  Ayenb., 106. Al þet me wes ywoned byuore to louie.

c. 1384.  Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 486. His clarioun … With which he wonde is to hiraude Hem that me list preised be.

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. VII. 143. Among wyues and wodewes ich am ywoned [v.rr. wonet to, wont to] sitte Yparroked in puwes.

c. 1450.  Godstow Reg., 106. Iohn Waleys and Alice his wyf … quyteclaymed … ij. d. of yerely rente, the which they were I-wonyd to haue.

1483.  Caxton, Gold. Leg., 111/1. Lyke as he was woond to telle and reherce. Ibid. (1489), Faytes of A., III. xiii. 196. Of suche thynges men are woned to vse.

  β.  a. 1240.  Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 257. Ant al þat hird þat ha wes i wunet to dreaien efter hire.

c. 1290.  Beket, 247, in S. Eng. Leg., 113. With more nobleie he rod i-nouȝ þane he was i-wonet to do.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3922. A godd … Þe quilk þat he was wonnt anure. Ibid., 4452. To comforth þam wel was he wont. Ibid., 28223. My breth it wald be til vnhoue Þat many man was wonto droue.

13[?].  Bonaventura’s Medit., 975. Sone, y was wunt þe swetly to wrappe.

1375.  Barbour, Bruce, I. 220. That folk, that euir wes fre, And in fredome wount for to be.

c. 1440.  Alphabet of Tales, 292. He forgatt hur,… nor did hur nott wurshup, as he was wunte to doo.

a. 1450.  Myrc, Par. Pr., 1353. Art þow I-wont at lychwake Any pleyes for to make?

c. 1470.  Stonor Papers (Camden), I. 110. Servantes be not so delygent as þei were wonto bee.

c. 1520.  Skelton, Magnyf., 1890. He was wonte to boste, brage, and to brace.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 16. Ay wont in desert darknesse to remaine.

1664.  Butler, Hud., II. III. 599. Your Ancient Conjurers were wont To make her from her Sphere dismount.

1741–2.  Gray, Agrippina, 108. Legions, wont to stem With stubborn nerves the tide.

1810.  Scott, Lady of L., VI. xxiv. The lark was wont my matins ring.

1814.  Jane Austen, Mansf. Park, xli. He might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose.

1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., viii. Every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet.

1869.  Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 350. The poet is wont to ignore the rivers when it suits his convenience to do so.

  (b)  predicated of things.

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 57. Vre swinc and ure tilþe is ofte iwoned [v.rr. iwuned, wuned] to swinden.

1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 914. And so, grete tempest secede al, Þat on þeyr frutys was wnt to fal.

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 85. Parthia … was i-woned to conteyne al þe lond of foure contrees, of Assyria, of Media, of Persida, and of Carmania.

c. 1400.  Maundev., i. (1919), I. 5. Constantynoble þat was wont to be clept Bezanzon.

1444.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 114/1. Al manere of Wynes … were woned and used to pass through a vessell.

1566.  S’hampton Crt. Leet Rec. (1905), I. i. 44. Where the Backe was wante to stonde.

1647.  in Verney Mem. (1907), I. 359. The longer your letters were the more they were woont to please mee.

1667.  Milton, P. L., V. 123. Those looks That wont to be more chearful and serene.

1794.  Paley, Evid., III. viii. (1817), 373. The prejudices which are wont to arise in our minds.

1875.  Whitney, Life Lang., vii. 127. Such a distinction is wont to be termed ‘inorganic.’

  b.  Conjugated with the verb ‘to have’: in had wont, had been accustomed. Now rare.

1594.  O. B., Quest. Profit. Concern., 15 b. One of his good dames … who had wont to bestow the best roome … in her house on him.

1606.  G. W[oodcocke], Hist. Ivstine, XLIV. 137. A narrow path, where cattel had wont to go through.

1655.  trans. Sorel’s Com. Hist. Francion, I. 16. My Couch had wont to be upon curious Satin Quilts.

1682.  Bunyan, Holy War, 239. The love-feasts that had wont to be between their Prince and them.

1870.  J. Bruce, Life of Gideon, vii. 120. He who had wont to come to the patriarchs … had actually come to him.

  c.  without inf.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., II. 138. Þes … halʓa wer wæs ʓewunod þæt he wolde gan on niht to sæ.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3520. Esau went for till hunt, A day, sum he was oft wunt.

c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, x. (Mathou), 68. Þai cuth … Ger serpentis strik men ful sare, As befor-tyme wechis vont ware.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 321. Ȝif lif of þise newe ordris be more medeful þen mannes lif was woned.

c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, XI. 349. Inglismen thocht he tuk mar boundandly Than he was wount at ony tym befor.

1535.  Coverdale, Ps. cxviii[i]. 149. Quycken me acordinge as thou art wont.

1656.  Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., II. xv. (1674), 164. He found her not to have that Grace and Majesty which she had wont.

1719.  Young, Revenge, V. i. He fought as he was wont, and four he slew.

1812.  Cary, Dante, Parad., XVII. 52. The common cry, Will, as ’tis ever wont, affix the blame Unto the party injur’d.

1848.  Dickens, Dombey, xli. All is going on as it was wont.

  † B.  ppl. a. = WONTED B. Obs.

1382.  Wyclif, Jer. xlviii. 33. The tredere of the grape the wont myrie song shal not synge.

14[?].  Hoccleve, Min. Poems, 70/107. Lady! Of thy wont bontee, keepe alway the cours!

c. 1450.  trans. De Imitatione, III. vii. 73. Þou … turnest anoon ayen to þe wont iapes of þyne herte.

1535.  Joye, Apol. Tindale (Arb.), 17. Aftir his wont disdaynful maner.

1596.  Spenser, F. Q., V. iii. 1. So comes it now to Florimell by tourne,… To tast of ioy, and to wont pleasures to retourne.

  b.  Ought and wont (Sc.): due and customary. (Cf. used and wont s.v. USED ppl. a. 2 b.)

c. 1450.  Godstow Reg., 258. Yeldyng therof yerely to the chief lordis dewe and woned rentis.

1477.  in Exch. Rolls Scot., IX. 102. All uthir dew service aucht and wount.

1535.  Reg. Privy Seal Scot., II. 261/2. With uther service and dewiteis aucht and wonit alanerlie.