Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

réce-leás

  • adjective
Dictionary links
Grammar
réce-leás, adj.
Careless, reckless
Show examples

  • Réccileás

    prefaricator,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 118, 8.

  • Ymb ða gýmene his écre hǽlo hé wæs tó sǽne and tó réceleás

    erga curam perpetuae suae salvationis nihil omnino studii & industriae gerens,

      Bd. 3,13; S. 538, 19.

  • Tó hwam wurde ðú swá réceleás ðæra gyfena ðe ic ðé geaf? Wulfst. 258, 13 note. Hié ne wéndon ðætt ǽfre menn sceolden swǽ réceleáse (récce-,

      Cott. MSS.) weorðan, Past. pref. ; Swt. 5, 23.

  • Ðú wéndest ðæt steórleáse men and réceleáse wǽron gesǽlige

    nequam homines alque nefarios felices arbitraris,

      Bt. 5, 3; Fox 14, 1.

  • Se démþ stíðne dóm ðám réceleásum æt ðam æfterran tócyme,

      Homl. Th. i. 320, 18.
  • Gif hé hwíltídum ðám réceleásum stýrþ, ðonne sceal his steór beón mid lufe gemetegod, ii. 532, 12.
Etymology
[ȝiff þatt he wære reckelæs to ringenn hise belles, Orm. 932. Ðe unwreste herde (iners pastor) synegeþ on gemeleste alse he þat is recheles, O. E. Homl. ii. 39, 19. Alle beoð untohene and rechelese hinen, bute ȝef he ham rihte, i. 245, 27. O. H. Ger. ruahha-lós negligens : Ger. ruch-los.]
Linked entries
v.  récce-leás.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “réce-leás.” 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/25626.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • réce-leás, adj.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.