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on-dryslíc

  • adjective
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Grammar
on-dryslíc, -drystlíc, -ðyrstlíc, -deslíc; adj.
Terrible, dreadful
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  • Ús is tó geþencanne hú onþrislíc (-dryslíc : egeslíc, other MS.) hit on bócum gecweden is,

      L. Ath. i. prm. ; Th. i. 196, 4.
  • Cwæð ðæt se mon wǽre ondrysenlíc (onderslíc, MS. T. : ondrislíc, MS. B.) on tó seónne (

    terribilis aspectu

    ),
      Bd. 2, 16; S. 519, 35.
  • Ondeslíc terribilis, Rtl. 69, 4 :

    orror (?),

      162, 28.
  • Ácwellan ondryslícum wítum,

      Shrn. 111, l0.
  • Þreágan mid ondrystlícum wítum,

      104, 16.
  • Gif hwilc mon síe on ondyrstlecum wísum (

    in dreadful straits

    ), and hé sý mínes naman gemyndig, Drihten, gefriða ðú hine from ðæm brógan, 101, 30.
  • Sum sume swíðe ondryslícu (

    tremenda

    ) secgende wæs,
      Bd. 5, 12 tit. ; S. 627, 3. v. following words.
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v.  on-drislíc on-drystlíc.
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  • on-dryslíc, adj.