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smicer

  • adjective
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smicer, adj.
Fair, fine, beautiful, elegant
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  • Smicre elegans, loquax, Txts. 59, 737:

    elegans,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 29, 22.
  • Smicerre ansíne

    eleganti forma,

      30, 26.
  • Smicere leóþe

    carmine rithmico,

      23, 24.
  • Windan manigne smicerne wǽn and manig ǽnlic hús settan and fegerne tún timbrian. Shrn. 163, 16.
  • Hió bit ð æt hí findon twá smicere scencingcuppan intó beódern

    she asks them to provide two fair goblets for the refectory,

      Ch. Th. 536, 7.
  • Ðæs smicerestan

    politissimis.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 26.
Etymology
[He warrþ till atell defell off shene smikerr enngeil, Orm. 13679. O. H. Ger. smechar elegans, delicatus.]
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