dreed

One is therefore, from more than one point of view, left with a sort of Fakir self-mortification, undertaken and "dreed" neither to atone for anything, nor to propitiate any Power, nor really to benefit any man.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

"May the gude God o 'heaven sain you," he said "and ferd you for aye, for the braw deed ye hae dreed the day; tak 'this wee ring, gudemon, and tak' ye this ane, gudewife, and when ye look on this and on that, I rede ye render up are prayer to him abune for the weal o 'Charles Edward, your unfortunate prince."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various

By his own craft forsooth, dreed the work of the swimming;

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

The sun slop'd from the southward; so dreed they their journey,

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

And the hatreds the doleful which erst they have dreed;

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

And withal she dreed her weird with a lofty courage, faced it full front with a high defiance, which must bespeak for ever the admiration at least of every generous spirit.

England under the Tudors

Tell him the time’s coming now, and the weird’s dreed, and the wheel’s turning.

Chapter XLVI 1917

"He dreed his weird," said Mrs. McLane indifferently.

Sleeping Fires: a Novel Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

His face quivered before these blows, but all he said was, "I must dree my dreed."

The Little Minister 1898

Look at me: as doctor said the other day, I have dreed my weird; few and evil have been my days, like Jacob, but here

Uncle Max Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874