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cwic-súsl

  • noun [ feminineneuter ]
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cwic-súsl, cwyc-súsl, es; n; e; f. [súsl sulphur, brimstone, torment, punishment] Living punishment, hell-torment; sempervivum tormentum, infernum, barathrum = βάραθρον
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  • Cwicsúsl vel helelíc deópnes

    barathrum, vorago profunda,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 54
    • ;
    • Som. 66,
    • 96;
    • Wrt. Voc. 36,
    • 20.
  • Satanas ðæs cwicsúsles ealdor ðære helle

    Satan the chief of the living torment of hell,

    • Nicod. 26
    • ;
    • Thw. 14,
    • 12.
  • On ðam cwicsúsle

    in hell-torment,

    • 25
    • ;
    • Thw. 13, 30: Exon. 16a
    • ;
    • Th. 35,
    • 21;
    • Cri. 561: 97a
    • ;
    • Th. 362, 18: Wal. 38
    • .
  • Of ðysse cwycsúsle

    from this hell-torment,

    • Nicod. 30
    • ;
    • Thw. 17,
    • 28.
  • Faraþ ða unrihtwísan into écere cwicsúsle, mid deófle and his awyrigedum englum

    the unrighteous will go into everlasting torment, with the devil and his accursed angels,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 108,
    • 31.
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v.  súsl cwyc-súsl.
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