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meagol

  • adjective
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Grammar
meagol, <b>, megol;</b> adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§635;
Earnest, strenuous, firm
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  • Ðæt ic Gode and Sancta Marian meaglum móde on éce yrfe geseald hæbbe

    what I, with mind immovable, have given as a perpetual inheritance to God and St. Mary

    (cf. the form 'Ego donationem indeclinabiliter consensi,'

    • 322, 6
    • ),
    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 331, 5.
  • Mandryhten holdne gegrétte meaglum wordum

    the lord (Hygelac) greeted his liege (Beowulf, on his return) with earnest words, gave him a hearty greeting,

    • Beo. Th. 3964
    • ;
    • B. 1980: Exon. 43 a
    • ;
    • Th. 146, 8
    • ;
    • Gú. 706.
  • Fugla cyn hine weorþedon meaglum stefnum,

    • 46 a
    • ;
    • Th. 157, 13
    • ;
    • Gú. 892: 60 b
    • ;
    • Th. 221, 22
    • ;
    • Ph. 338.
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v. un-meagol and following words.
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  • meagol, adj.