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Fede, Feid, n. Also: fed, feide, feyd, feed(e, fide, fead(e, fade, faid. [Northern ME. fede (a 1300; rare), OF. fede, feide, faide, OHG. fêhida.]

1. Hostility, enmity.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxi. 27.
Scho ne wald … hyre husbande tel it til, Fore dowt of fede betwen tham twa Ib. xxviii. 476.
Thame agane euir … fed haf I c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 996.
To the ded They war to do for cause of fed 1456 Hay I.78/8.
We se that the wylde bestis takis naturale fede and haterent ilkane to othir c1420 Ratis R. 977.
Thow sal … grow mar & mar in fed For caus of mwtyne and of pled a1500 Bk. Chess 107.
He was of sic a cruell fede, That his correkkeris put he all to deid 1513 Doug. ii. ix. 48.
Priamus than … Mycht nocht conteyn his ire nor wordis of fed 1533 Boece ii. ix. 75.
To remove all rankoure & fede … amang the heris rasit(b) 1457 Acts II. 51/1.
Gif ony man … allegis feide or dreide of ony party c1475 Wall. ii. 310.
Sic deid to thaim, me think, suld foster feid a1500 Seven S. 2245.
He him answerd all with feid And said that he had seruit his deid c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 323.
Or I him faith gaif, I had sic favour to that freke, and feid syne for euer 1531 Bell. Boece II. 132.
Thir treasonabil Saxonis turnit thair mindis fra amite to feid and hatrent 1560 Rolland Seven S. 497.
He thocht he wald not tak the feid Of all, and pleis bot ane a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxx. 103.
Thair hardie hartis … For fortoums feid on force wald newir fald 1609 Dundonald Par. Rec. 187.
Johne Neill … grantit his byding fra the Commvnioun … becaus of feid he vas vnder with sundrie c1650 Spalding I. 169.
The covenant admittit no … feid to stand on-reconceillit(c) 1558-66 Knox I. 173.
He said, ‘Tush, a feg for the fead’ 1573 Sat. P. xl. 196.
How he suld fend from furie and thair fead a1605 Montg. Son. lxix. 8.
Feir God … And cair not by Dame Fortuns fead a fle 1600-1610 Melvill 428.
They did pretend a forgett cause of fead 1666-7 Blakhall Narr. 7.
He … would not manteane it before Mr. Forbes, fearing to encore his feade(d) a1568 Scott iii. 30.
With this, part wreth and fremmit to, but faid [: remeid] 1596 Dalr. I. 92/19.
The fade and inimitie borne toward thair parents(e) a1605 Montg. Son. xxxiii. 4.
Nor had [I] offendit, vhill I felt hir feed 1623 Bk. Carlaverock II. 4.
A cause of feed betwixte two surnames 1639 Baillie I. 193.
We were not meikle sollicit for the Marqueis feed, and all [who] would take his part 1673 Justiciary Ct. Rec. II. 130.
In regard [of] nothing proven of feed or hatred betwixt them tuo(f) 1596 Dalr. I. 261/12.
Nichtbour fide being put to rest amang the commoun people

b. Frequent with ald, dedely, or mortall.(1) c1420 Wynt. vii. 3013.
Awld fede, and gret dyscorde That wes betwene thame and that lorde 1456 Hay I. 279/20.
To provoke nois and debatis, for alde fede or envy 1510 Crim. Trials I. 65.
That na maner of personis tak upon hande to invaid ane ane uther, for alde ffeide or new 1537 Reg. Privy S. II. 369/2.
He and Neil Boyd … upon auld feid and forthocht felony, cruelly slew umquhill Patrik M^cFlwrik a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. xcviii. 106.
Thai sall haue caus to dreid Foirfaltis and auld feid 1607 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 267.
That na manir of persoune … truble ane ane ithir for new debt or ald debt, new feid or awld feid 1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III. 258.
Hurters and wounders of persouns upon auld feede and forethought fellonie(2) 1511–1603 (see Dedely a. 4). a1651 Calderwood IV. 411.
They stirred up and fostered inimitie and deadlie feed 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. II. xvii. § 4.
No action concerning removings should be advocat, but in these cases, viz. deadly feed [etc.](3) 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 442.
I maruell more, That Fortune had at hym sic mortall feid 1549 Compl. 167/16.
Quhen citinaris and induellaris of ane cite hes mortal fede contrar vthirs a1578 Pitsc. I. 167/10.
Thair grew sic mortall feid within the kingis breist towardis his bretherine

c. Contrasted with favour or frendschip, esp. for favour or fede; but fede or favour, without favour or fede, etc.(1) 1398 Acts I. 210/2.
[To] gife him lele consail … nocht hafande ee to fede na freyndschyp a1500 Henr. Fab. 530.
Prydefull he wes, And comptit not for Goddis fauour nor feid 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 622.
The veritie … thay sulde declare, Without regarde to fuouror to fede 1560 Rolland Seven S. 21.
Thay tuke na cure of na manis fauour nor feid 1566 Reg. Privy C. I. 490.
All … feid, favour, or affectioun set asyde, thay sall declair thaimselffis innemeis to the … committaris of the said disordour(2) 1456 Hay I. 262/13.
[If] thai … ar fundyn variable … for fauour or fede, or aw or mede Ib. 285/14.
Thai geve thair counsale … outhir for fede or frendschip, lufrent or haterent, or for mede [etc.] 1461 Liber Plusc. 397.
Stoppand the law for lufe, frenschip, or fede 1556 Lauder Off. Kings 441.
For fauour of freindis, nor fois feid, No wrang decretis thay aucht to leid a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. xcix. 17.
Sum will not spair for fauour nor for feid Thair nychtbouris rowmes to tak thame our thair heid 1609 Gardyne Garden 38.
For Fortunes favour or her fead, I nether eik nor pairs my trynde 1666-7 Blakhall Narr. 7.
She had one trustie freind, who would never abandon her … for fead or favour of any man(3) a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 87.
But feid or fauour, or clokit correctioun 1531 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 54.
Thai sall lelely and treuly, without feid, fawour, or prejudice of party, depone [etc.] 1538 Ib. 88.
The said James swore to … keip the said merkatt but feid, favour, frawde or gyle 1570 Sat. P. xxii. 105.
It schawis hir dew commendis, But fauour or ȝit feid 1581 Cath. Tr. 115/30.
Being suorne to iudge … vithout feir, fead, or fauour 1615 Highland P. III. 201.
Willing you withoute fauour, feede, or respecte of any person … to try and examyne him 1701 Stirling B. Rec. II. 95.
The contraveeners shall be proceeded against without fead [or] favour

d. To have, hald, or bere, at fede = to be at fede with, to be at enmity with. c1450-2 Howlat 61.
All thir fowlis, formy filth, has me at feid c1420 Ratis R. 1488.
Tyrandry, That ay with mesur is at fed c1460 De Reg. Princ. 146 (Ch. & M.).
Sectouris fermly scho haldis at fede c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 405.
His frendis as my fais I held at feid evir a1568 Scott xxxiv. 7.
Lufe hes non at feid Bot fulis that can nocht fle c1590 J. Stewart 68/119.
All that multitude … Quhilks buir this strong renownit knycht at feed 1604-31 Craig II. 85/16.
The smallest one whom Loue at fead hath borne 1627 Id. v. 11.
False Fortune, that holds mee at feid 1611-57 Mure True Cruc. 1940.
To … beare the Devill and all the World at fead 1629 Boyd Last B. 6.
A man that is at feede with his God 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xi. § 16.
When two persons were at fead

2. With a and pl. A continued state of hostility between persons or parties; a standing enmity.(a) 1456 Hay II. 149/36.
Than sall thai fynd occasioun of malice and of fedis 1549 Compl. 174/18.
That ve forȝet … the lange dedly fede that hes bean betuix vs 1581 Reg. Privy C. III. 383.
Deidlie fedis, grudgeis, ..and occasionis of displeasouris amangis thame(b) 1535 Stewart 19097.
He … diligence hes done To caus that feid for to incres and grow 1556 Stirling B. Rec. I. 68.
That on na wis ye cheis ony of the partijs forsaides, nor nane utheris part takaris of the feid 1567 G. Ball. 210.
As it had bene ane mortall feid 1589 Montgomery Mem. 229.
Assistaris and parttakaris in the present feid standing betuix of housis of Eglintoun and Glencarne 1603 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 249.
Amangis quhome thair being sindrie querrellis and deidlie feidis standing vnreconcelit c1650 Spalding I. 14.
The Marques of Huntly and sum weill set freindis satlit this feid 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xiv. § 2.
Killing the Laird of Mackclane, who came to lodge with him, … notwithstanding of the feids which were amongst them(c) 1570 Leslie 247.
Thair was sum … that preissed to waikin auld deidlie feaddes, and to quyt querrellis 1594 Colville Lett. 263.
The fead is lyke to be quickened with blood 1605 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI 68.
This langsuime feade betuixhim and the Johnstons 1633 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 94.
They haue no deadly fead, that's gone of late, But they're at deadly fead with their owne state(d) a1651 Calderwood IV. 664.
Persons refusing to commumcat, pretending frivole feeds 1657 Balfour Ann. II. 68.
His Maiesties sentence and decreitt being read concerning all feeds and matters of blood betuix the Hayes and Gordons(e) 1596 Dalr. I. 93/3.
Sa this deidlie faid was nevir put in the buke of obliuione