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éste-líce

  • adverb
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graciously
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  • Suá micle suá hió éstelícor of dúne ástígeð, suá hió iéðelícor úp ástígeð

    quo benigne descendit ad infima, valenter recurrit ad summa,

    • Past. 103, 18
      • .

  • Hié hié sculon suá micle éstelícor dǽlan suá hié ongietað ðæt him unágenre bið ðæt hié dǽlað

    tanto humiliter praebeant, quanto et aliena esse intelligunt, quae dispensant,

    • 321, 8
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  • Oestelíce

    devote,

    • Rtl. 31, 34
      • .
delicately, luxuriously
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  • Éstelíce fram cnihtháde fédan

    delicate a pueritia nutrire,

    • Kent. Gl. 1065
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  • Genóh estelíce

    (delicate)

    hine grápað sé þe wyle bútan geswince leahtras oferswíþan,

    • Scint. 103, 20
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “éste-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/44244.

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