WITNESS / 334
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 334
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED cites this early Old English record for the Devil sense. The manuscript object was not directly inspected in this review and the representative year is not a precise copying date.
Old Englishearly Old English, source-reportedestablished
fēond
King Alfred’s Pastoral Care, Devil as Old Enemy
“of ðæs ealdan feondes honda”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 900
- LOCATOR
- Pastoral Care xxxvi. 261
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfēond ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1166 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-fiend-2026