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circa 1400, "having power to control fate"

from wierd (n.) - not a typo
from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates"
literally "that which comes"
from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (source also of German werden)

weird adjective
  • partaking of or suggestive of the supernatural; of a mysterious or unearthly character; unaccountably or uncomfortably strange; uncanny.
  • of, relating to, or caused by witchcraft or the supernatural; magical
weird or wierd noun
  • fate, destiny
  • soothsayer
  • That which is destined or fated to happen to a particular person, etc.; what one will do or suffer; one's appointed lot or fortune, destiny
  • variant of world: The earth and everything on it, the globe; the human environment; (also) the countries of the earth collectively
weird or wierd verb
  • transitive. To preordain by the decree of fate; esp. in passive to be destined or divinely appointed to, into, or unto (with infinitive or noun)

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
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artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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