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up-lendisc

  • adjective
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Grammar
up-lendisc, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§590;
Uplandish, country (as opposed to town), rural, rustic
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  • Uplendisc forensis (forensis Migne),

    qui foras est,

    • Germ. 389, 41.
  • Eft begann sum uplendisc mann egeslíce hrýman tó ðám árleásum burhwarum ... Ð á arn se ceorl geond ealle ða strǽt hrýmende,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 302, 4-8.
  • Wé wyllaþ ðisne circul ámearkian, ðæt se uplendiscea preóst (cf. Chaucer's: Poure persoun dwellyng uppon land) wite his naman; mæg beón ðe glædre his heorte ðe hé sum þing hérof undergyte,

    • Anglia viii. 317, 38.
  • Ic wéne, lá, uplendisca preóst, ðæt ðú nyte hwæt beó atomos,

    • 318, 14.
  • Ðú byst uppan lande mid wímmannum oftor ðonne ic beó ... Ic hit gehýrde secgan, ðæt ðás uplendiscan wíf wyllaþ oft drincan,

    • Engl. Stud. viii. 62, 12.
  • Wé witon ðæt ðás þing þincaþ clericum and uplendiscum preóstum genóh mænigfealde,

    • Anglia viii. 321, 25.
Etymology
[ Oplondysch men wol lykne hamsylf to gentilmen ... The Saxon tonge ys abide scarslych wiþ feaw uplondysch men,
  • Trev. i. c. 59.
Uplondysche mann villanus,
  • Prompt. Parv. 512,
where see note .]
Linked entries
v.  uppe-land.
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  • up-lendisc, adj.