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  • Gelimplice

    fatali,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 38, 4.
  • Gilimplicum gimaerende successibus determinans, Rtl. 164, 38. I a. in grammar translating

    accidens.

    v. ge-limp;
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  • Sume naman synd

    accidentia,

    þæt synd gelimplice, þe gelimpað ánum gehwylcum,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 12, 13.
  • Word hæfð seofon gelimplice ðing

    uerbum habet septem accidentia,

      119, 12.
fitting, suitable, convenient, apt.
of persons,
competent, fit
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  • Gif se yrðlincg behylt underbæc gelóme, ne bið hé gelimplic tilia,

      Hml. S. 16, 179.
  • Stýran þiére nytennysse þurh mynegunge gelimplices láreówes. Hml. Th. ii. 134, 6.
of things
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  • Þá gelimplican

    congrua, i. convenientia,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 133, 38.
  • Gelimplice daele

    conpetenies portiunculas,

      104, 78: 132, 65.
of material things
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  • Þá gebróhte se bisceop ealle þá hálgan bán on gelimplicum scrýnum,

      Hml. S. ii. 275.
of non-material things
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  • Agustinus líchaman hé þǽr gesette mid gelimplicre áre,

      Shrn. 122, 28.
  • Mid gelimplicre endebyrdnesse weorþian,

      Bl. H. 307, 33.
  • Wé willað nú sume eów geopenian, and sume eft on gelimplicere tíde,

      Hml. Th. ii. 200, 6.
  • Gelimplicum

    horis competentibus.

      Bd. 2, 12; Sch. 162, 2.
with a clause
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  • Þ gelimplic wæs, ꝥ hé his leornerum frófre sende,

      Bl. H. 131, 22: 133, 24.
fitted for,
adapted to
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  • Ǽlc byð gelimplic tó his lifes tilunge,

      Hex. 16, 4.
  • JOS ealle lima mé gesceópe tó menniscum bricum gemǽte and gelimplice

    (apta),

      Angl. xi. 112, 18.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-limphlíh competens.]
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v. un-gelimplic.
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