WITNESS / 355
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 355
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports this occurrence under the obsolete monster sense. The historical object was not directly inspected and the dating remains source-reported.
Present-Day Englishcirca 1275, possibly composed before 1200established
fiend
Malevolent creatures or monsters
“Brutus & his gode folc under-ȝeten þeos feondes”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1275
- LOCATOR
- Laȝamon, Brut, Caligula manuscript, line 907
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfiend ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1167 ↗
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