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simbel

  • adjective
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Grammar
simbel, symbel, simel ; adj.
Continual, perpetual. [The word occurs only in the adverbial forms simbles, simble, on simbel (cf. on ídel), and the compounds simbel-farende, -geféra ; similarly O. H. Ger. simpal for the most part appears in adverbial forms, but Graff vi. 26 gives one instance of its adjective use, simplém assiduis. Icel. simul ever, is preserved in only one or two passages]
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  • On simbel ever, always, continually :-- Hí hiora freóndscipe forþ on symbel gehealdaþ

    they continue ever to maintain their friendship,

      Met. 11, 94.

  • Hió þyrstende wæs on symbel mannes blódes

    she was continually thirsting for human blood ;

    haec, sanguinem sitiens, inter incessablia homicidia,
      Ors. 1, 2 ; Swt. 30, 27.

  • Ðǽr se ríca hyne reste on symbel nihtes

    where the ruler ever rested at night,

      Judth. Thw. 22, 2 ; Jud. 44. v. following words.
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v.  simble simbles symbel.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “simbel.” 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/27759.

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