Wode

Alternative forms

• wood

Origin

Middle English, from Old English wōd ("mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous"), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wāt- ("prophet"). Cognate with Middle Dutch woet (Dutch woede), Old High German wuot (German Wut ("fury")), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌸𐍃 ("demonically possessed"). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vates ("seer, prophet"), Old Irish fáith ("seer"), Welsh gwawd ("song").

Full definition of wode

Adjective

1. (archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
• 1806, James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain:My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake
  And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.----