warder
See also: wårder and Warder
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Noun
warder (plural warders)
- A guard, especially in a prison.
- 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, [Act IV]:
- Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.
But hath thy portion wrought so happily?
Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,
I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.
- 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616, stanza II, page 24:
- Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song.
- 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368th Night, p. 26,
- So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, Chapter 24,
- Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.
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- (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,
- When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,
- Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene 3]:
- Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
- 1764, “Onuphrio Muralto”, chapter 3, in William Marshal [pseudonym; Horace Walpole], transl., The Castle of Otranto, […], Dublin: […] J. Hoey, […], published 1765, OCLC 837383313, page 91:
- If thou dost not comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity. And so saying, the Herald cast down his warder.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,
- One who or that which wards or repels.
- 1876, The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East (page 79)
- The conspicuous position thus accorded to the cat as a warder-off of evil fortune seems oddly paralleled, though not imitated, by the place accorded to the same animal in popular European folklore.
- 1876, The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East (page 79)
Translations
guard
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Anagrams
- drawer, redraw, reward, warred
Old French
Verb
warder
- (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of guarder
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of warder (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | warder | avoir wardé | |||||
| gerund | en wardant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | wardant | ||||||
| past participle | wardé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses | present | wart | wardes | warde | wardons | wardez | wardent |
| imperfect | wardoie, wardeie, wardoe, wardeve | wardoies, wardeies, wardoes, wardeves | wardoit, wardeit, wardot, wardeve | wardiiens, wardiens | wardiiez, wardiez | wardoient, wardeient, wardoent, wardevent | |
| preterite | wardai | wardas | warda | wardames | wardastes | warderent | |
| future | warderai | warderas | wardera | warderons | warderoiz, wardereiz, warderez | warderont | |
| conditional | warderoie, wardereie | warderoies, wardereies | warderoit, wardereit | warderiiens, warderiens | warderiiez, warderiez | warderoient, wardereient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses | present | wart | warz | wart | wardons | wardez | wardent |
| imperfect | wardasse | wardasses | wardast | wardissons, wardissiens | wardissoiz, wardissez, wardissiez | wardassent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | warde | — | wardons | wardez | — | ||
Picard
Etymology
From Old French warder.
Verb
warder
- to keep
Conjugation
Conjugation in Picard| infinitive | warder | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | wardint | ||||||
| auxiliary | avoèr | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | wardè | wardèe | |||||
| plural | wardès | wardèes | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | ej (j') | tu (t') | i (il)/ale | (n)os | os | is | |
| present | warde | wardes | warde | wardons | wardez | wardtte | |
| imperfect | wardoé | wardoés | wardoét | wardoinmes | wardoètes | wardoètte | |
| future | wardrai wardro | wardros | wardro | wardrons | wardrez | wardront | |
| conditional | wardroé | wardroés | wardroét | wardroinmes | wardroètes | wardroètte | |
| subjunctive | qu'ej (j') | qu'tu (t') | qu'i (il)/ale | qu'(n)os | qu'os | qu'is | |
| present | warde | wardes | warde | wardonche | wardèche | wardtte | |
| imperative | — | tu | — | (n)os | os | — | |
| affirmative | warde | wardons | wardez | ||||