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car-ful, (care-).
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of persons,
filled with anxiety, anxious, troubled
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  • Ðú eart carful and bysig ymbe fela ðing

    thou art careful and troubled about many things

    (Lk.
      10, 41), Hml. Th. ii. 440, 8.

  • Ne beó ðú carful ymbe woruldlicum gestreónum,

      344, 2.

  • Férde se cásere swíðe carful, and gelóme beheóld wið heofonas weard,

      304, 8.

  • Hé ongǽn his fiónd férde mid carfullum móde,

      H. R. 3, 12.
careful, attentive to the interests of,
solicitous for
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  • Hú abbod careful

    (sollicitus) beón

    sceal ymbe ðá dǽdbétendan,
      R. Ben. 50, 16.

  • Se þén þe þám untrumum gebróðrum þénað sý careful (car-,

    v. l.

    ),
      60, 21.
careful, painstaking, applying care to what one does,
heedful
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  • Carful gestaþeliend

    zelotypus plasmator,

      An. Ox. 364.

  • Weorðe sé carfull, hú hé swýþast mæge gecwéman his Drihtne,

      Wlfst. 72, 10.

  • Wer carfull

    (studiosus)

    and wís,
      Scint. 206, 5.

  • Hweþer hé carful sý tó godcundum weorce

    si solicitus est ad opus Dei,

      R. Ben. 97, 16.

  • Mæden carful, þancful, nytwyrþe,

      Lch. iii. 188, 14.

  • Drusiana árás, and carfull be ðæs apostoles hǽse hám gewende,

      Hml. Th. i. 60, 19.

  • Hé sylf ǽlce tíd getácnige, oðþe swylcum carefullan bréðer þá gýmene betǽce, þe náne tíd ne forgýmeleásige,

      R. Ben. 72, 12.

  • Undernimað ðǽra apostola word mid carfullum móde,

      Hml. Th. i. 236, 4: ii. 284, 25.
of things,
fraught or
attended with anxiety, troublesome
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  • Carfull (heti) bíhýdinys

    scrupulosa (dubitata) sollicitudo,

      An. Ox. 5429.
shewing care for or
attention to a person's interests
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  • Hæfde se godspellere gýmene þǽre hálgan Marian, and mid carfulre þénunge gehýrsumede,

      Hml. Th. i. 438, 15.
careful, heedful
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  • Mid carfulre gýmene

    solerti cura,

      Scint. 121, 2.
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v. cearful in Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “car-ful.” 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/41392.

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