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smeálíce

  • adverb
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smeálíce, adv.
of inquiry, investigation, etc., searchingly, carefully, narrowly, closely
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  • Hí smeálíce sóhtan

    perquirentes subtilius

    • Bd. 3, 10
      • ;
    • S. 5. 34, 37.

  • Hí smeálíce sóhton ðone behíddan mete

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 12.

  • Hit is smeálíce and geornlíce tó séceanne

    subtiliter perscrutanda

    • Past. 21, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 150, 11.

  • Wé sculon swíðe smeálíce ðissa ágðer underþencean

    hoc in utrisque est subtiliter intuendum

    • 7, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 49, 23.

  • Gesceád ða wé smeálíce geþencan sculan

    discretio, quae subtiliter pensari debeat

    • Bd. 1, 27
      • ;
    • S. 496, 35.

  • Smeálícor

    • Past. 11, 2
      • ;
    • Swt. 67, 6.
of reasoning, thinking, etc., closely, deeply, acutely, with penetration
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  • Hé ongann smeálíce þencan on his módes ingeþance

    velut in augustam suae mentis sedem recepta

    • Bt. 24, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 80, 5.

  • Mé þincþ ðæt wit mǽgen smeálícor sprecan and diógolran wordum

    validioribus rationibus utendum puto

    • 13
      • ;
    • Fox 36, 32 : 13, tit.
      • ;
    • Fox xii, 16.

  • Ðonne ic ymbe swelc smeálícost þence

    when I think most deeply about such a matter

    • 10
      • ;
    • Fox 26, 29.
of knowing, seeing, etc., clearly, accurately, exactly
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  • Ða ðe meahton smeálíce and scearplíce mid hiera andgite ryht geseón

    qui videre recta subtiliter per ingenium poterant

    • Past. 11, 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 69, 5.

  • Ðeáh se láreów ðis eall smeálíce and openlíce gecýðe

    cuncta haec licet subtiliter rector insinuet

    • 21, 6
      • ;
    • Swt. 163, 18.

  • Se ðe wile geornlíce ðone Godes cwide singan sóðlíce (smeálíce, MS. B.)

    • Salm. Kmbl. 171
      • ;
    • Sal. 85.
closely
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  • Án cliwen suíðe nearwe and suíðe smeálíce gefealden

    • Past. 35
      • ;
    • Swt. 241, 24.
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v. smeáh
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Bosworth, Joseph. “smeálíce.” 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/28091.

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