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or-mǽte

  • adjective
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or-mǽte, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§434; §580;
Immense, excessive
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  • Ormǽte

    gigas,

      Hymn. Surt. 44, 13.

  • Ormǽde,

      112, 23.

  • Ðǽr læg sum ormíéta stán,

      Homl. Th. ii. 164, 29.

  • Duru ormǽte. Exon. Th. 19, 32 ; Cri. 309. þreát ormǽte,

      270, 14; Jul. 465.
  • þreá ormǽte. Andr. Kmbl.
      2333; An. 1168.
  • Hé mid ormǽtre angsumnysse wæs gecwylmed. Homl. Th. i. 88, 5.

  • Bifigende mid ormǽtre cwacunge,

      504, 28.
  • For ðære ormǽtan éhtnysse, ii. 542, 20.

  • Hié woldon ormǽte feoh gegaderian. Bt. 24,

      2; Fox 82, 17.

  • Ðágesomnode man ormǽte fyrde,

      Chr. 1001; Erl. 137, 10.

  • Ða ormǽtan

    minacem,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 1.

  • Ormǽte buccan

    magnicaper,

    i.
      23, 58.

  • Lecgan him onuppan ormǽte

    (ingentia)

    weorcstánas,
      Jos. 10, 27.

  • Ic dreág yfel ormǽtu,

      Exon. Th. 280, 10; Jul. 627.

  • Þurh ða ormátan éhtnyssa,

      Homl. Th. i. 6, 2.
Etymology
[Orm. orr-mete.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “or-mǽte.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/24962.

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