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æf-ést

  • noun [ masculine ]
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æf-ést, l. æf-est(-æst, -ist), æfst, æfstu; m. f.
Wright's OE grammar
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in a bad sense
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  • Se dierna æfst. Past. 79, 13.
  • Be ðám is áwriten ðætte ðis fiǽsclice líf sié ǽfesð (

    invidia

    ),
      235, 13.
  • For ðæs æfstes scylde

    per livoris vitium

    ,
      237, i. Æfestes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 12.
  • Mid ðǽre biteran æfeste,

      Bl. H. 25, 7.
  • Mid ðám þyccylum ðǽre æfæste

    invidiae

    ,
      Gr. D. 117, 28: 118, 2.
  • Æfstu,

      Ps. Th. 69, 4.
  • Hié hié nyllað healdan wið ðǽm æfste (

    livore) . . . for ðæs lytegan fióndes æfeste (invidia )

    deáð becóme ofer eorðan,
      Past. 233, 17-19.
  • Áweorpan ðone æfst, 25.
  • Hié him æfest tó genáman

    they became envious of him

    ,
      Bl. H. 7, ll. Æfeste ánforlǽtan, Gú. 158 : Fä. 36.
  • Æfest

    invidiam

    ,
      Mt. p. I, 10.
  • Þurh æfeste (æfist,

      L.), Mt. R. 27, 18 : Mk. R. 15, 10.
  • Níð and æfesta

    odium et invidiae

    ,
      Ll. Th. ii. 174, 32.
  • Æfisto

    invidias

    ,
      Rtl. 25, 25.
in a good sense,
zeal
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  • Be gódum æfste (zelo) ðe munecas habban sceolon, R. Ben. 131, II. Elnung ł æfista húses ðines

    zelus domus tuae

    ,
      Jn. R. 2, 17.
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  • æf-ést, n.