Meanings
adjectivevild (comparative more vild, superlative most vild)
comparative more vild · superlative most vild
- obsoletevile
Ye have rooted all the Relicks out / Of that vild Race, and 'stablished my Peace.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18
Origin
As if the past participle of a verb *to vile. See vile (adjective).
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