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up-líc

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up-líc, adj.
on high,
referring to this world
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  • Ðonne bið gefylled eall uplíc lyft ǽtrenum líge,

    • Wulfst. 138, 5.

  • Úre Drihten gesceóp ... ða upplícan heofenan ... and ðæt upplíce lyft,

    • Hexam. 4;
    • Norm. 6, 20-24.
referring to heaven
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  • Ðæt wuldor ðæs uplícan éðles

    supernae patriae gloriam,

    • Past. 21
      • ;
    • Swt. 159, 23.

  • Tó gefeán ðære upplícan ceastre,

    • Bd. 1, 7;
    • S. 479, 15.

  • In ðam uplícan éðle,

    • Exon. Th. 225, 20;
    • Ph. 392.

  • Uplícne hám,

    • Cd. Th. 287, 5;
    • Sat. 362
      • .

  • Ðara uplícra burhwara geférscipe,

    • Blickl. Homl. 197, 16.
lofty, sublime
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  • Upplícan anagogen, upplíc andgyt supernum intellectum,

    • Hpt. Gl. 506, 17-19.

  • Uplícum andgite anagogen,

    • Anglia xiii. 28, 15. Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 37.
      • (Cf.Anagogen, celsissimo intellectu, Gástlecum andgite anagogen,
      • 1, 10.
      Ðæm godcundan heáhstan anagogen,
      • 9, 7.
      )

  • God mid ðǽm uplícum and mid ðǽm diéglum ðingum hira mód onliéht mid ðæm scíman his giefe,

    • Past. 35
      • ;
    • Swt. 243, 20.
celestial
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  • Se uplíca Déma,

    • Blickl. Homl. 95, 33: Chr. 979
      • ;
    • Erl. 129, 17.

  • Gif hine gecíst sió uplíce gifu

    quem superna gratia elegit,

    • Past. 7
      • ;
    • Swt. 51, 4.

  • Cuæð sió uplíce stemn tó Moyse,

    • 11
      • ;
    • Swt. 63, 23.

  • Seó upplíce árfæstnys,

    • Bd. 3, 13
      • ;
    • S. 538, 31.

  • Mid ðam uplícan mihte geþreád,

    • 1, 7
      • ;
    • S. 478, 40.

  • Sprecan be ðám upplícan ðómum Godes,

    • 5, 19
      • ;
    • S. 640, 34.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. úf-líh supernus
.]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “up-líc.” 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/34066.

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