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wác-líc

  • adjective
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wác-líc, adj. Poor, mean, of little dignity or worth, paltry. v. wác, III
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  • Wáclíc vilis, Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 64: Hpt. Gl. 523, 74:

    inutile, contemptum,

      470, 22.

  • Ðú wilt habban ealle fægere ðing and ácorene, and wilt ðé sylf beón wáclíc and unwurð,

      Homl. Th. ii. 410, 20: 372, 8.

  • Hwæþer ðæt nú sié tó talianne wáclíc and unnyt ðætte nytwyrþost is eallra ðissa woruldþinga?

    num imbecillum, ac sine viribus aestimandum est, quod omnibus rebus constal esse praestantius?

      Bt. 24, 4; Fox 86, 16.

  • Wé mihton eów secgan áne lytle bysne, gif hit tó wáclíc nǽre,

      Homl. Th. i. 40, 27.

  • Wáclíc bið him swá lytel tó sendenne,

      400, 20.

  • Hí wǽdliende on ánum wáclícum wǽfelse férdon,

      62, 29.

  • Him þúhte tó wáclícre dǽde, ðæt hé fordyde hine ǽnne,

      Homl. Ass. 96, 142.

  • Ðæt gecynd ðe hí ǽr wáclíc tealdon,

      Homl. Th. i. 38, 30.

  • Manega Lazaras gé habbaþ.... Ðeáh ðe hí sýn wáclíce geðúhte,

      334, 30.

  • Wudehunig and óðre wáclíce ðigena,

      352, 8.

  • Sume men syllaþ cyrcan tó hýre swá swá wáclíce mylna,

      Homl. Skt. i. 19, 249.

  • On wáclícum ðingum wícnian

    to perform menial offices,

    ii.
      170, 25.

  • Wáclícum

    foedis,

      Germ. 395, 78.

  • Hí unrǽdlíce férdon on heora ídelum lustum and wáclícum gebǽrum,

      Ælfc. T Grn. 17, 16.
Etymology
[Icel. veik-ligr vilis.]
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v. un-wáclíc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wác-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/34188.

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