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un-cyst

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
un-cyst, e: -cyste, an; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§588;
A vice, defect, fault.
of the body, a disorder
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  • Wið wífa earfoðnyssum; ðás uncyste Grécas hátaþ hystem cepnizam,

    • Lchdm. i. 334, 18.

  • Tó eallum uncystum ðe on gómum beóð ácenned,

    • 348, 12.
of diction, a fault, solecism
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  • Ðære uncyste sylocismi, laudacismi, ða uncyste

    barbarismi (the passage is: Inter Scillam soloecismi et barbarismi baratrum ... scopulosas lautacismi collisiones, Ald. 80),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 27-33: 52, 49.
of morals, a vice, fault
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  • Ðæt on ús ne sý geméted nǽnigu stów ǽmetig gástlícra mægena, ðæt ðǽr mæge yfelu uncyst on eardian,

    • Blickl. Homl. 37, l0.

  • Ðeós deáþberende uncyst (

    envy

    ),
    • 65, 13.

  • Hé bær ða wǽtan ðære uncystan (-cyste, Bd. M. 82, 13) in ðam telgan

    portat in ramo humorem vitii,

    • Bd. 1, 27
      • ;
    • S. 495, 26.

  • Ða uncyste ðære ánwielnesse

    vitio obstinationis,

    • Past. 6
      • ;
    • Swt. 47, 16.

  • Gif ðú nán gód dón nelt Gode tó wurðmynte, ðonne geswutelast ðú mid ðære uncyste ðíne yfelnysse,

    • Homl. Th. i. 142, 2.

  • Fýr ǽleþ uncyste,

    • Exon. Th. 233, 17
      • ;
    • Ph. 526: 81, 27
      • ;
    • Cri. 1330.

  • Gif hwylce uncysta on biscopum gemétte sýn

    si qua sunt in episcopis vitia,

    • Bd. 1, 27
      • ;
    • S. 492, 17.

  • Ða unsýfernysse uncysta

    rudera vitiorum,

    • 4, 3; S. 569, 32: 1, 27
      • ;
    • S. 495, 32.

  • Uncysta

    passionum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 33.

  • Ða men ðe ðyssum uncystum ( covetousness, envy, lust ) fylgaþ,

    • Blickl. Homl. 25, 9.

  • Hwá ongyt his uncysta

    delicta quis intelligit?

    • Ps. Th. 18, 11.

  • Sume wealdaþ ealle uncysta and leahtras on him sylfum,

    • Homl. Th. i. 344, 35.
the vice of avarice, niggardliness, parsimony, want of liberality.
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v. un-cystig
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  • -- Ðises mannes (the rich span who gave nothing to Lazarus ) uncyst and upáhefednys hine besencte on cwicsúsle,

    • Homl. Th. i. 328, 22.

  • Spærnesse ł uncyste

    frugalitatis,

    • Hpt. Gl. 425, 66.

  • Ne hé uncysta ná begange

    nec avaritie studeat,

    • R. Ben. 55, 3.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. un-kust vitium, scelus, dolus.
Cf.
Icel. ú-kostr a fault.
]
Linked entries
v.  un-gecost.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “un-cyst.” 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/32740.

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