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EÁCA

  • noun [ masculine ]
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EÁCA, an; m.
An addition, EEKING, increase, usury, advantage; additāmentum
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  • Ðeáh mín bán and blód bútú geweorþen eorþan to eácan

    though my bones and blood both become an increase to the earth,

    • Exon. 38 a
    • ;
    • Th. 125,
    • 10;
    • Gú. 352
    • .
  • Þincþ ðé lytel eáca ðínra gesǽlþa

    does it seem to thee little addition to thy felicities?

    • Bt. 20
    • ;
    • Fox 72,
    • 12.
  • Is witena gehwám wópes eáca

    there is increase of weeping to every man,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 922
    • ;
    • Sal. 460
    • .
  • Ic [Ælfríc Abbod] geset hæbbe feówertig lárspella, and sumne eácan ðǽrto

    I [Abbot Ælfric] have composed forty sermons, and some addition thereto,

    • Ǽlfc. T. 27,
    • 18.
  • Gif he hæfþ sumne eácan yfeles

    if he has some addition of evil,

    • Bt. 38,
    • 3;
    • Fox 200,
    • 19.
  • For dæs yfles eácan

    for the addition of evil,

    • 200,
    • 21.
  • Ne gehéne ðú hine mid ðý eácan

    oppress him not with the usury, L. Alf. 35; Th. i. 52, 23; neque humĭlia ilium ūsūra tua, Wilk. 31, 45. ¶ To eácan besides, moreover Ðæt wæs to eácan óðrum unarīmedum yflum that was besides other innumerable evils: literally, in or for, addition to, etc.

    • Bt. 1
    • ;
    • Fox 2,
    • 11.
  • To eácan himselfum besides himself: literally,

    in addition to,

    • Bt. 26,
    • 2;
    • Fox 92,
    • 20.
  • Óðer is to eácan andgete

    the second is moreover manifest,

    • Exon. 26 a
    • ;
    • Th. 76,
    • 21;
    • Cri. 1243
    • .
Derived forms
mægen-eáca, ofer-
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  • EÁCA, n.