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dígol-líce

  • adverb
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dígol-líce, díglíce.
Add: Secretly,
so as to take others unawares or at a disadvantage
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  • Hé gesette twá folc diégellíce on twá healfa his,

      Ors. 4, 6; S. 174, 32: 4, 10; S. 200, 13.

  • He diégellíce for þǽm gewinne V geár scipa worhte,

      2, 5; S. 78, 32.

  • Hé nolde geþafian þám þeófe ꝥ hé underdulfe dígellíce his hús,

      Hml. A. 50, 13.

  • Dígollíce,

      54, 64.

  • Hé gegaderode his fyrde díglíce,

      Chr. 1004; P. 135, 31.
so as to avoid publicity, exposure, detection
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  • Hé wearð diégel-lice crísten, for þon hé eáwenga ne dorste,

      Ors. 6, 21; S. 272, 18.

  • Hé sende dígellíce ǽrendgewritu tó þám Cásere,

      Bt. l; F. 2, 20.

  • Lǽran openlíce oððe dígollíce,

      Hml. A. 12, 297.

  • Dígellíce

    absconce,

      R. Ben.I. 33, 5.

  • Ðeáh hé hit openlíce dó . . . Ac sé ðonne sé hit dégellíce (

    in secreto

    ) déð,
      Past. 451, 18.

  • Ꝥ hiora fýnd hit deágollíce (

    occulto

    ) genómon,
      Nar. 7, 4.

  • Hié in heora húsum deágollíce hié miþan

    inter tectorum suorum culmina delituerunt,

      10, 18.

  • Hié genáman deógollíce his líc,

      Bl. H. 191, 32.

  • Hé wolde hí díglíce forlǽtan,

      Hml. Th. i. 196, 17.

  • Dígelíce (díhlíce, v. l., deiglíce, L., dégullíce, R.)

    occulte,

      Mt. 1, 19.

  • Díglíce (déglíce, L., dégullíce, R.)

    secreto,

      17, 19.

  • Déglíce (dégullíce, R.), Mt. L. 20, 17:

    clam,

      2, 7.

  • Déglíhe

    secreto,

      24, 3.

  • Díhlíce (digellíce,

    v. l.

    ),
      Wlfst. 88, 21.

  • Hé sý dýhlíce (dýglíce, v. l.) gemyngod

    ammoneatur secrete,

      R. Ben. 48, 6: 51, 2.

  • Hý swá díhlíce wuniende hý fram manna gesyhðe áscyriaþ,

      134, 18.
so as to confine an action to one's self
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  • Ðá scylda ðe hié diógollíce (diégollíce, v. l.) on him selfum forberað

    culpas quas in se tacite tolerari considerant,

      Past. 151, 15.

  • Þá þóhte hé dígollíce

    he thought to himself,

      Hml. A. 134, 622.

  • Hió cueð deiglíce

    dicebat intra se,

      Mt. L. 9, 21. v. un*-*dígollíce.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “dígol-líce.” 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/42774.

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