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un-meahtig

  • adjective
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un-meahtig, -mehtig, -mihtig; adj.
not mighty, weak, impotent, of little power or means
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  • Unmihtig

    inpos,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 9, 31
      • ;
    • Zup. 58, 2:

    inpotens,

    • 14
      • ;
    • Zup. 87, 13.

  • Ys Drihtnes hand unmihtig (

    invalida

    )?
    • Num. 11, 23.

  • Gif ic beó bescoren, ðonne beó ic unmihtig (

    recedet a me fortitudo mea et deficiam

    ),
    • Jud. 16, 17, 19.

  • Mannes fultum is unmihtig and ídel

    vana salus hominis,

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 11, 41.

  • Ðé læs ðe unmihtig man feorr for his ágenon swince,

    • L. Ff.
      • ;
    • Th. i. 224, 27.

  • Tó ánum mǽdene unmihtigum tó wíge,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 10, 257.

  • Ðý læs mon unmihtigne man tó feor for his ágenan swencte,

    • L. Eth. ii. 9
      • ;
    • Th. i. 290, 3.

  • Ongit hú unmihtige ða yfelan men beóþ

    vide quanta vitiosorum hominum pateat infirmitas,

    • Bt. 36, 5
      • ;
    • Fox 180, 2: 29, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 104, 12: 36, 2
      • ;
    • Fox 174, 27.

  • Unmehtige,

    • Met. 24, 62.

  • Ne bepǽce nán man hine sylfne, ðæt hé secge, ðæt ǽnig hád sý unmihtigra ðonne óðer,

    • Homl. Th. i. 284, 17.

  • Swá hwæt swá unmihtigre bið, ðæt ne bið ná God,

    • 228, 27: Hexam. 3
      • ;
    • Norm. 6, 7, 5.

  • Hú micle unmihtegran hí wǽron,

    • Bt. 36, 5
      • ;
    • Fox 180, 4.
impossible
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  • Ðis unmæhtig is

    hoc impossibile est,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 19, 26: Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 10, 27.

  • Unmæhtigo (-mæhtge, Rush.)

    inpossibilia,

    • Lk. Skt. Lind. 18, 27.
Etymology
[Adam bicom unmihti, O. E. Homl. ii. 35, 8. Þilke unmyȝty tyraunt,
  • Chauc. Boet. 13, 241.
Goth. un-mahteigs weak; impossible
:
O. H. Ger. un-mahtíg invalidus, infirmus, imbecillis
:
Icel. ú-máttigr weak, infirm.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-meahtig.” 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/33536.

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