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dreary, mournful, sad, sorrowful
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  • Dreórig maestus vel

    maerens,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 2: 83, 38.

  • Se mann ðe bið dreórig, hé behófað sumes frófres,

      Hml. Th. ii. 370, 20: Wand. 25.

  • Begann se wer dreórig wépan,

      Hml. Th. ii. 142, 13.

  • Maria stód wið ðá róde ðearle dreórig . . . Ðá clypode Drihten tó his dreórian méder,

      256, 25.
  • Ðá ðá Joseph undergeat ꝥ Maria mid cilde wæs, ðá wearð hé dreórig, i. 196, 16.

  • Gewitan him þá Norðmen, dreórig daraða láf,

      Chr. 937; P. 109, 12.

  • Sceal þes dreórga heáp þrowian,

      Sat. 394.

  • Dreórigne hyge,

      Gú. 1112: Wand. 17: Met. 22, 33.

  • Hig wurdon swíðe dreórige and cyrdon eft

    illi scissis vestibus reversi sunt,

      Gen. 44, 13.

  • Beón dreórige

    contristari,

      Mk. 14, 19: Hml. Th. i. 60, 15: 62, 28.

  • Dreórge,

      Jul. 482.

  • Dǽle man frófer þám dreórigum,

      Wlfst. 74, 5.

  • Se deópa seáð dreórge fédeð,

      Cri. 1545.
causing grief, cruel, horrid, grievous,
of persons
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  • Spreceð grimlíce se gást tó þám duste: '. . . dreórega (dreórga,

    v. l.

    ), tó hwan drehtest þú mé?',
      Seel. 17.

  • Þæt mé ne mótan þá dreórgan deófla mínne synna on stǽlan,

      Angl. xi. 100, 93.
of things
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  • Seón cyning swylt dreórig (or
) fornam, Ps. Th. 135, 20. In þás dreórgan tíd, Gú. 1058.
bloody, gory
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  • Wæter under stód dreórig and ge*-*dréfed. . . . Flód blóde weól, hátan heolfre,

      B. 1417-23.
  • Hé dryhten sínne driórigne (cf. 2692-3) fand, 2789.
headlong (? cf. dreórung, dreósan)
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  • Ic geseah ðone sceoccan swá swá scínende líget feallende ádún dreórig of heofonum,

      Hex. 18, 6.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. dreary. Cf. O. Sax. drórag: Icel. dreyrigr bloody.]
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v. heoru-dreórig.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “dreórig.” 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/42937.

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