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réðe, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§434;
Fierce, cruel, savage. It glosses the following Latin words, efferus,
    Ælfc. Gr. 14; Som. 16, 57
: ferus, 38; Som. 41, 45 : trux, 9, 67; Som. 14, 10 : ferox, 9, 66; Som. 14, 6 : Wet. Voc. ii. 108, 37 : funestus, 34, 12 : infestus, 45, 26 : durus, crudelis, asper, 142, 19 : severus, immansuetus, 142, 44 : austerus, 1, 20 : furibundus, valde iracundus, Hpt. 450, 1 : truculentus, 518, 34. Roeðe asper, Lk. Skt.
    Lind. 3, 5.
applied to persons
in a bad sense
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  • Ðes (

    Ishmael) byþ réðe (ferus )

    man and winþ wið ealle and ealle wið hyne,
      Gen. 16, 12.

  • Ealle his ǽhta ríce réðe mann gedǽle may a rich and cruel man divide all his possessions; scrutetur foenerator omnem substantiam ejus (Grein takes reðemann

    and compares Gothic

    raþjo),
      Ps. Th. 108, 11.

  • Gif hé (a king) his folc ofsit, ðon biþ hé

    tyrannus,

    ðæt is réðe,
      Ælfc. Gr. 50, 20; Som. 51, 47.

  • Grim and grǽdig, reóc and réðe (

    Grendel

    ),
      Beo. Th. 244; B. 122.

  • Ðá wæs ellenwód, yrre and réðe, frécne and ferþgrim fæder wið dehter,

      Exon. Th. 251, 5; Jul. 140.

  • Sum árleás hine wolde sleán on his heáfde, ac ðæt wǽpen wand áweg of ðæs réðan handum,

      Homl. Th. ii. 510, 23.

  • Burhrúnan, réðe

    furie,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 77.

  • Twegen ðe hæfdon deófolseócnesse wǽron swíðe réðe (

    saevi nimis

    ),
      Mt. Bos. 8, 28.

  • Ealle swíðe erre-wǽron. Ðá wæs heora sum réðra and hátheortra ðonne ðá óðre,

      Blickl. Homl. 223, 6.
of justifiable severity,
severe, stern, austere, zealous
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  • Strang wæs and réðe se ðe wætrum weóld (

    the Deity at the time of the flood

    ),
      Cd. Th. 83, 8; Gen. 1376.

  • Biþ ðonne (

    at the day of judgment

    ) ríces weard réðe and meahtig, yrre and egesful,
      Exon. Th. 93, 19; 1528.
  • Réðe biþ Dryhten æt ðam dóme, Soul Kmbl. 196; Seel. Verc. 98.

  • Óðer biscop, réðes módes mon

    austerioris animi vir,

      Bd. 3, 5; S. 527, 20.

  • Réðe and stræce for ryhtwísnesse

    justitiae severitate districti,

      Past. 5, 1; Swt. 41, 19.

  • Ðá wæs se bysceop mycle ðig réðra on gódum weorcum ðe hé ymbe ða cúðlícan méde gehýrde,

      Shrn. 98, 19.

  • God sylfa ðonne ne gýmeþ nǽnges mannes hreowe . . . ac biþ ðonne réðra and þearlwísra ðonne ǽnig wilde deór, oððe ǽfre ǽnig mód gewurde,

      Blickl. Homl. 95, 30.

  • Wolde heofona helm helle weallas forbrecan ... réðust ealra cyninga (

    Christ at the harrowing of hell

    ),
      Exon. Th. 461, 16; Hö. 36.
applied to animals,
wild, savage, fierce
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  • Réðe deór

    bellua,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 22, 40.

  • Réðe nýten

    feralis bestia,

    ii.
      147, 53.
  • Rib reáfiaþ réðe wyrmas, Soul Kmbl. 221; Seel. 113.
applied to things (punishment, calamity, etc.),
severe, cruel, fierce, dire
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  • Réðe wyrd

    fortuna aspera,

      Bt. 40, 1; Fox 236, 6-7.

  • Wæs þreálíc þing þeódum tóweard, réðe wíte,

      Cd. Th. 79, 30; Gen. 1319.

  • Wearð him on slǽpe gecýðed ðætte ríces gehwæs réðe sceolde gelimpan eorðan dreámas ende wurðan

    on sleep was made known to him that of every kingdom a terrible end should befall, an end be of the joy of earth,

      223, 4; Dan. 114.

  • Líg reád and reáðe,

      Dóm. L. 152.

  • Réðe,

      Exon. Th. 51, 3; Cri. 810.

  • Sprecan réðe word (

    of the judgment passed on the wicked

    ),
      50, 11; Cri. 798.

  • Hé him sylfum réðne ðóm and heardne geearnaþ,

      Blickl. Homl. 95, 34.

  • Regnas réðe, háte of heofenum,

      Ps. Th. 104, 28 : Met. 7, 27.

  • Réðum wítum

    ferocibus cruciatibus,

      Hpt. Gl. 487, 10.

  • Mid ðý hí cwǽdon ðæt ðæt is wundor ðæt ðú swá réðe forhæfednesse and swá hearde habban wylt andswarede hé : 'Heardran and réðran ic geseah'

    cum dicerent : 'Mirum quod tam austeram tenere continentiam velis,' respondebat : 'Austeriora ego vidi,

    '
      Bd. 5, 12; S. 631, 34.
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v. un-réðe.
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v.  hréðe.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “réðe.” 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/25749.

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