pa. pple. arch. Forms: 1 ʓewrecen, 3 iwreken, 4 iwrokin, 5 ywrekyd, ywroke, 4– ywroken. [OE. ʓewrecen, pa. pple. of (ʓe)wrecan: see Y- 4 and WREAK v.] Avenged; taken vengeance upon, punished.
c. 893. Ælfred, Oros., I. xiv. Ær hie þæt ʓewrecen hæfden.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1856. Symeon and leui … hauen here sister ðor i-wreken.
13[?]. Cursor M., 4416 (Gött.). As þu art man for þe Loke on him i-wrokin be.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XX. 203. Ȝif þow wilt ben ywroken wende in-to vnite.
14[?]. Tundale’s Vis. (Turnbull), 1304. But they schall soo y-wrekyd bee That non of hem schall see the.
c. 1430. Lydg., Misc. Poems (Percy Soc.), 41. Ther was no speke y-broke, Nor wrestelyng wherby be was y-wroke.
1595. Spenser, Col. Clout, 921. Through iudgement of the Gods to been ywroken.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, Concl. Vanda’s wrong has been ywroken.
a. 1835. Motherwell, Clerke Richard & Maid Margaret, xi. And now that hatred was ywroken, A wondrous joy in them had sprung.
