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mǽrlíce

  • adverb
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mǽrlíce, adv.
Magnificently, excellently, nobly, splendidly, with distinction
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  • Mǽrlíce

    insigniter.

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 81: Hpt. Gl. 512, 47.

  • Ðam sý mǽrlíce mægen and wurðment bútan ænde

    cui sit magnifice virtus et honor sine fine.

    • Hymn. Surt. 47, 32: Hy. 7, 19
      • ;
    • Hy. Grn. ii. 287, 19.

  • Hé mǽrlíce weorhte

    magnifice fecit

    (he hath done excellent things,

    • A. V.
      • ),
    • Cant. Es. 5.

  • Sum welig man . . dæghwamlíce mǽrlíce

    (splendide)

    leofode,
    • Homl. Th. i. 328, 13.

  • Joseph leofode on ðam lande (Egypt) mǽrlíce

    ,
    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 5, 8.

  • Hwæt is ðes mihtiga ðe ðus mǽrlíce féreþ

    (Christ entering Jerusalem),

    • Blickl. Homl. 71, 14.

  • Mǽrlíce ðæt líc behwurfon mid miclum wópe

    celebrantes exequias planctu magno,

    • Gen. 50, 10.

  • Healdaþ ðisne dæg on eówerum gemynde and freólsiaþ hine mǽrlíce,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 264, 15.

  • Swá hé ús mǽrlícor gifeþ swá wé him mǽrlícor þancian scylon

    the more excellent his gifts are, the more excellent ought our thanks to be,

    • Wulfst. 261, 20.
Etymology
[
O. Sax. már-líko.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “mǽrlíce.” 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/22185.

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