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likeness, resemblance
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  • Hwí is gecweden ǽgþer ge anlícnyss

    (imago) ge gelícnyss (simililudo )

    ? Seó anlícnyss is tó understandenne on þǽre écnysse, and seó gelícnyss on hire þeáwum,
      Angl. vii. 20, 178.

  • Hé gestrínde sunu tó his gelícnesse and anlýcnysse,

      Gen. 5, 3.
an example, model, figure, (in speaking)
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  • Sió anlícnes wæs gecueden

    figurate per habitum sacerdotis dicit,

      Past. 95, 11.

  • Siexfealdre anlícnesse

    sena paradigmata,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 39.
an image, figure
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  • Anlícnes

    anagrippa,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 10 : ii. 8, 30.

  • Anlícnesse

    colori,

      An. Ox. 1637.

  • Sum árgeótere, sé mehte dón missenlica anlícnessa, Ors. l, 12 ; S. 54, 20. IIIa. an image used for worship, an idol; :-- Anlícnyssa

    simulacrorum,

      An. Ox. 3472.

  • Hiora anlícnessa (

    imagines

    ) hefenisc fýr forbærnde,
      Ors. 2, 8; S. 94, 14.

  • Rachel hæfde þá andlícnyssa

    (idola)

    forstolen,
      Gen. 31, 32.

  • Ne wirce gé eów náne andlícnissa (

    scalptam similitudinem, aut imaginem

    ) ne wǽpmannes ne nýtenes ne fugeles,
      Deut. 4, 16. v. and-, on-lícnes in Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “an-lícnes.” 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/38768.

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