Obs. [OE. wódscipe: see WOOD a. and -SHIP.] Madness; WOODNESS.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 245/12. Furia, insania, amentia, wodscipe, reþnes.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 120. Ira furor brevis est: wreððe is a wodschipe.

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a. 1240.  Lofsong, in O. E. Hom., I. 211. Leste þu wreoke ham on me i wodschipe of þine wreððe.

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a. 1325.  Prose Psalter, xxxvi[i]. 8. Ende fram ire, and forsak wodeship.

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c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. cxx. (1869), 62. Glotonye hath double woodshipe; woodshipe of savouring, and woodshipe of outrageous spekinge.

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