a. Obs. rare. [OE. þéodisc = OS. thiudisc, OHG. diutisc:—OTeut. *þeudisko-z, f. OE. þéod, THEDE. Cf. DUTCH. If the word had survived in later ME., its form would have been *theedish.] Of or belonging to a nation or people; native, national, popular; in biblical use, Gentile; in quot. 1715 used for Old German.
c. 1000. Aldhelm Gl., viii. 350, in Napier, O. E. Gloss., Gentiles, þeodisce.
c. 1205. Lay., 5838. Wende þa þeodisce men [c. 1275 þe Romanisse] Þat Belin wolde þenne.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 197. Who turn’d the Gospels into Theodisck or old Francick Rhyme.
