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sib-sum

  • adjective
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sib-sum, adj.
Peaceable, pacific, friendly
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  • Sibsum

    pacificus,

      Rtl. 39, 9.
  • Eálá ðú sóða and ðú sibsuma, Crist ælmihtig. Exon. Th. 14,

      5; Cri. 214.
  • Ða Gotan lustlíce sibbsummes friðes æt eów biddende sindon

    the Goths willingly ask for a friendly peace at your hands;

    Gothi societatem Romani foederis precibus sperant,
      Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 48, 22.
  • Sibsume ł friðgeorne (ł friðsume, Rush.)

    pacifici,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 5, 9.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. sippi-sam pacificus.]
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v. ge-sibsum.
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