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ídel

  • noun [ neuter ]
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ídel, es. ; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§126; §431; §639;
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that which is useless, vain, or frivolous
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  • Swá hwylc ídel swá him tó geþance yrnð and him gecoren bið, þæt hié taliað hálig,

      R. Ben. 9, 18.

  • Ðá ðe willað tó fela ídles and unnyttes gespræcan

    verbosi.

      Past. 271, 7.

  • Ídle

    casso,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 37 : 14, 4.

  • Wá þám þe cyrican mid ídele sécað: þæt syndan þá ungesǽligan þe ðǽr fleardiað mid ídelre spǽce and hwílum mid ídelre ðǽde,

      Wlfst. 279, 5-8.

  • Ðonne ongitt ðín sáwl ðæt ðú sylf lufodest ídel,

      Hex. 50, 22.
  • ¶ on ídel. Take here the passages in Dict. under ídel;
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in vain, to no purpose
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  • Hí on ídel sóhton sáwle míne,

    ipsi in vanum quaesierunt animam meam,

      Ps. Th. 62, 8.
without cause
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  • Ne flít ðú on ídel

    ne contendas (contra dominem)frustra,

      Kent. Gl. 57.

  • Ne nemn þú Drihtnes naman on ýdel (

    in vanum); ne byð unscyldig sé þe his naman on ýdel (frustra ),

    nemð,
      Ex. 20, 7.

  • Ne dwela ðú on ídel

    be not deceived without cause

    (2
      Mace. vii. 18), Hml. S. 25 157.
idleness, Prov. Kmbl. 1: 61 (in Dict.) [The Latin translated in Lch. iii. 214, ii is: Si uideris multas capras, uanitatem significat; the Latin original of Guth. 70, 2 is: Non est praetereundum silentio . . .]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ídel.” 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/53808.

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