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swilce

  • adverb
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swilce, swelce; adv. conj.
in like manner, also, as well, too
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  • Se com swylce tó-dæg tó mé

    ad me quoque hodie venire dignatus est,

      Bd. 4, 3; S. 568, 17.
  • Swylce hé brohte mycel feoh

    attulit autem et summam pecuniae non parvam,

      4, 11; S. 599, 20.
  • Hé wæs sóþ man, ðý hine dorste deófol costian; swylce hé wæs sóþ God, ðý him englas þegnedon,

      Blickl. Homl. 33, 34.
  • Swilce gelamp eft óðer wundor ðysum onlíc,

      221, 18.
  • Swilce óþre dæge ðæt ilce hié dydon,

      241, 30: Cd. Th. 81, 2; Gen. 1339: 247, 24; Dan. 502.
  • Swilce is seó feorðe

    there is also the fourth,

      15, 14; Gen. 233.
  • Wǽglíðende swilce wíf heora

    the seafarers, their wives too,

      86, 18; Gen. 1432.
  • Swylce,

      Beo. Th. 226; B. 113.
  • End suelce (suilcae, suilce)

    atqueve,

      Txts. 37, 75.
  • Ic God herige and on God swylce gelýfe,

      Ps. Th. 55, 4.
  • Ge swylce,

      Beo. Th. 4508; B. 2258.
  • Hié hæfdon manige glengas; eác swylce hié hæfdon wíf,

      Blickl. Homl. 99, 20.
  • On ðære hálgan Ðrynnesse naman beó ðú hál, mid mínes láreówes geearnungum eác swylce gefultumod,

      Homl. Skt. i. 6, 40.
  • Ná ðæt ǽnne ac eác swilce manige

    non solum unum, sed etiam plures,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 26, 19.
  • Næs nó on gesundum þingum ánum, ac eác swylce on wiðer*-*weardum þingum,

      Blickl. Homl. 13, 8.
  • Eác ic swylce on God gewéne,

      Ps. Th. 55, 4.
  • Engla cynn and manna cynn and eác swylce werigra gásta,

      Blickl. Homl. 83, 12.
  • Swylce eác feówer tída syndan,

      35, 15.
  • Hé helpeþ þearfan swylce eác wædlan

    parcet pauperi et inopi,

      Ps. Th. 71, 13: Blickl. Homl. 75, 19: Judth. Thw. 21, 14; Jud. 18: 26, 20; Jud. 344.
  • Swylce hé ús álésde,

      Blickl. Homl. 103, 13.
  • Fífe cyningas, swilce seofene eác eorlas,

      Chr. 937; Erl. 112, 30.
  • And ic ðé on hleóðre hearpan swylce eác gecwéme,

      Ps. Th. 107, 2.
so, in such manner, in a manner already described
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  • Ðín mildheortnes is mycel wið heofenas, is ðín sóðfæstnes swylce wið wolcnum,

      Ps. Th. 56, 12.
  • Lifge Ismael lárum swilce ðínum,

      Cd. Th. 141, 18; Gen. 2346.
  • Ne wé swylc ne gefrugnan ǽfre gelimpan, ðæt ðú in sundurgiefe swylce (

    in such manner

    ) befénge,
      Exon. Th. 6, 7; Cri. 80.
as, like
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  • Ðonne ic wæs mid ludéum ic wæs swelce hié,

      Past. 16; Swt. 100, 7.
  • Ne beó gé swylce líceteras

    non eritis sicut hypocritae,

      Mt. Kmbl. 6, 5.
  • Genóh byþ ðam leorningcnihte ðæt hé sý swylce (

    sicut

    ) hys láreów, and þeów swylce hys hláfurd,
      10, 25.
  • Se áwyrgda gást is heáfod ealra unrihtwísra dǽda, swylce unrihtwíse syndon deófles leomo,

      Blickl. Homl. 33, 8.
  • Hyre twigu beóþ swylce swínen byrst,

      Lchdm. i. 156, 2.
  • Wearð gesewen swilce ánes mannes hand wrítende on ðære healle wáge,

      Homl. Th. ii. 434, 33.
  • Steam up árás swylce réc,

      Elen. Kmbl. 1604; El. 804: Andr. Kmbl. 178; An. 89.
  • Hwylc biþ hé (

    the body after death

    ) ðonne búton swylce stán,
      Blickl. Homl. 21, 26: Homl. Th. i. 406, 14.
  • Mé geweorðode wuldres ealdor swylce swá hé his módor eác geweorðode, Rood Kmbl. 181; Kr. 92. See also passages under swilc,
as if
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  • Se wearð wið hine forwréged swylce (suoelce, Lind.) hé his gód forspilde

    quasi dissipasset bona ipsius,

      Lk. Skt. 16, 1.
  • Swelce hié cwǽden

    as if they had said,

      Past. pref.; Swt. 5, 13.
  • Men gehýraþ myccle stefne on heofenum, swylce ðǽr man fyrde trymme and samnige,

      Blickl. Homl. 91, 31: Ps. Th. 101, 3.
  • Ðæs temples segl sylf slát on tú, swylce hit seaxes ecg þurhwóde,

      Exon. Th. 70, 20; Cri. 1141.
  • Hié on swíman lágon, swylce hié wǽron deáðe geslegene,

      Judth. Thw. 21, 23; Jud. 31.
with words denoting measure,
about
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  • Maria wunude mid hyre swylce (suælce, Lind.: swelce, Rush.) þrý mónþas

    quasi mensibus tribus,

      Lk. Skt. 1, 56.
  • Se Hǽlend wæs on ylde swylce þrítigwintre

    quasi annorum triginta,

      3, 23.
  • Betuh ðæm clife on (ond?) ðæm wætre wǽron swylce twelf míla,

      Blickl. Homl. 211, 3.
Etymology
[Sulch (ase, 2nd MS.) hit an liun were, Laym. 4085. Sulc (alse, 2nd MS.) he walde awede, 6486.]
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v.  swálíce.
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