Definition of "wield"

wield

/wiːld/

verb
third-person singular simple present wields, present participle wielding, simple past and past participle wielded
1. (obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
  Quotations
  There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 7”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889,
2. (obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
  Quotations
  With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends […].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
3. (obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
  Quotations
  All is weill done, God wate, weild he hys will.
  a. 1513, Virgil, “VIII, prologue”, in Gawin Douglas [i.e., Gavin Douglas], transl., edited by [George Dundas], The Æneid of Virgil: Translated into Scottish Verse (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 64, no. 1), volume I, Edinburgh: T. Constable, printer, published 1839, page 448, line 1
4. To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
5. To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.