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mǽte

  • adjective
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mǽte, adj.
Moderate, mean (between two extremes), small, poor, bad; in the cpve. inferior, applied to persons, of a middle or lower class
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  • Reste hé ðǽr mǽte weorode(alone),

    • Rood. Kmbl. 138
    • ;
    • Kr. 69.
  • So again

    Ic ána wæs mǽte werede,

    • 245
    • ;
    • Kr. 124.
  • Unrím ealra cwycra, mycelra and mǽtra

    (pusilla et magna),

    • Ps. Th. 103, 24: 113, 21: Exon. 33 a
    • ;
    • Th. 105, 16
    • ;
    • Gú. 24.
  • Ic ðé feáwe dagas mínra mǽttra móde secge

    I will tell thee the fewness of my days poor and evil;

    paucitatem dierum meorum enuntia mihi,

    • Ps. Th. 101, 21.
  • Ðe mǽtu sprecaþ ofer me

    qui maligna loquuntur super me,

    • Ps. Spl. T. 34, 30.
  • Biþ seó síþre tíd sǽda gehwylces mǽtræ in mægne

    (inferior in virtue),

    • Exon. 33a
    • ;
    • Th. 105, 2
    • ;
    • Gú. 17.
  • Gif hió biþ gód drenc, biþ on peninge; gif mǽtra, biþ on óðrum healfum oððe on twám; and gif ifel þrím, ac ne mǽ,

    • L. M. 2, 52
    • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 272, 24.
  • Hors tó healfan punde gif hit swá gód sý; and gif hit mǽtre sý, gilde be his wlites wyrþe,

    • L. Ath. V. 6
    • ;
    • Th. i. 232, 25.
  • Nalæs ðæt án ðætte ða mǽttran (mǽteran, MS. B. ) . . ac eác swylce cyningas and ealdormen

    non solum mediocres . . sed etiam reges et principes,

    • Bd. 4, 23
    • ;
    • S. 593, 43 note.
  • Eall ðás getimbro ge ða máran ge ða mǽttran

    cuncta hæc ædificia publica vel privata,

    • 4, 25
    • ;
    • S. 600, 33.
  • Micle anð mǽttran (MS. and micle mǽttan),

    • Chart. Th. 510, 32.
  • Mǽtran,

    • Bt. 39, 7
    • ;
    • Fox 222, 11 note.
  • Næs ðæt mǽtost mægenfultuma

    not poorest of aids was that,

    • Beo. Th. 2914
    • ;
    • B. 1455.
  • Métestum

    pessimi[s

    ?],
    • Kent. Gl. 711.
Similar entries
v. ge-, ofer-, or-, un-, unge-mǽte.
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v.  ge-mǽte mæctor.
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