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marking position,
placed at the top
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  • Heáfodlic, ufeweard swer

    epistilia,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 29.
  • Heáfudlicum

    capitellis,

      21, 19.
marking degree, rank,
chief, principal.
of places, offices, &c.
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  • Ðæs heáfodlican hearges

    capitolii,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 38.
  • Ðóme [heáfod]licum

    auctoritate principali,

      An. Ox. 5150.
  • Þás feówer heáfodrícu (heáfodlicu rícu,

    v. l.) quatuor regnorum principatus,

      Ors. 2, 1; Bos. 38, 20.
of sins,
deadly, mortal
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  • Heáfod[licra]

    principalium (vitiorum ),

      An. Ox. 773. [Heáfod
    ]licra, 671.
  • Ne wé heáfodlice leahtras ne lufian,

      Wlfst. 253, 9.
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[v. N. E. D. hedly.]
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