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ildest

  • adjective
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Grammar
ildest, superl.
of eald.
eldest, oldest
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  • Úre ieldesta mǽg

    parens primus [Adam],

    • Past. 43, 5
      • ;
    • Swt. 313, 15
      • .

  • Hé sóhte fram ðam yldestan óþ ðone gingestan

    quos scrutatus, incipiens a majore usque ad minimum.

    • Gen. 44, 12.

  • Ða yldestan

    senes,

    • Ps. Th. 104, 18
      • .

  • Ða yldestan chus and cham hátene wǽron

    the eldest were named Cush and Ham,

    • Cd. 79
      • ;
    • Th. 97, 22
      • ;
    • Gen. 1616
      • .
As the oldest might be supposed best fitted to fill the highest positions the word gets the meaning principal, chief, greatest
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  • Se yldesta

    cardinarius, i. primarius,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 48
      • ;
    • Som. 65. 66
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc, 14, 1
      • .

  • Yldest byrla

    magister calicum.

    • 113
      • :
    • Som. 79, 130
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 60, 34
      • .

  • Hé wæs ieldesð [summus ] ofer ða hálgan cirican,

    • Past. 17, 6
      • ;
    • Swt. 115, 16
      • .

  • Hwylc hyra yldest wǽre

    quis eorum major esset,

    • Lk. Skt. 9, 46, 33, 24.

  • Ieldesta bisceop

    pontifex maximus,

    • Ors. 5, 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 224, 2
      • .

  • Tyrus hét him tó clypian ðone ðe on ðam scype yldost wǽre

    Tyrus bade call to him the principal man on the ship,

    • St. And. 28, 6
      • .

  • Hé clipode him tó his yldestan geréfan

    dixit ad servum seniorem.

    • Gen. 24, 2
      • .

  • Aaron and ða yldestan men

    tam Aaron quam principes synagogæ,

    • Ex. 34. 31.

  • Ða ieldestan men ðe tó Bedanforda hiérdon,

    • Chr. 918
      • ;
    • Erl. 104, 23
      • .

  • Ða yldestan witan gehádode and leáwede Angelcynnes,

    • 1012
      • ;
    • Erl. 146, 7
      • :
    • 978
      • ;
    • Erl. 127, 9
      • .

  • Ða yldestan þægenas,

    • 1015
      • ;
    • Erl. 151, 19
      • .

  • Ealle ða yldestan menn on West-Seaxon

    all the principal men of Wessex,

    • 1036
      • ;
    • Erl. 165, 1
      • .

  • Ða ðe ieldeste wǽron

    equites,

    • Ors. 6, 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 260, 24
      • .

  • Ða yldstan setl on gesamnungum

    the highest seats in the synagogues;

    primas cathedras in synagogis,

    • Lk. Skt. 20, 46.

  • Ic hit rehte ðam yldostan Egiptan witun

    I told it to the chief wise men of Egypt,

    • Gen. 41, 24
      • .
Etymology
[
Laym. ældeste
:
Ayenb. eldeste
:
Icel. ellztr
:
O. H. Ger. altist, altost primus, primogenitus; thie altoston thes folkes seniores
. For the use similar to that given under II. of a word denoting in the first instance age, cf.
Goth. þai sinistans (lit. eldest) manageins by which Ulfilas translates οί πρεσβύτεροι τοû λαοû
;
and the passage in Ammianus Marcellinus 'sacerdos omnium maximus apud Burgundios vocatur sinistus.'
]
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v. ildra.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ildest.” 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/20472.

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