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that concerns the whole people, public, national
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  • Hí woldon ferian mid folclicum wurðmynte þone hálgan líchaman, and læcgan innan þǽre cyrcan

    they wanted to give the body a public funeral,

    • Hml. S. 32, 174
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  • Hí gewǽpnode út férdon mid folclicum truman

    accepit unusquisque vir arma sua et egressi sunt,

    • Hml. A. 113, 356
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  • Ðone feórðan pening on folclicre steóre

    omnem quartum nummum reipublicae,

    • C. D. iii. 61, 15
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  • Hé nolde forlǽtan þone folclican carnpdóm

    he would not give up the army,

    • Hml. S. 31, 92
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of the great mass of people, common, general
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  • Folclice

    vulgata (traditio ),

    • An. Ox. 5097
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  • Fela wundra wé gehýrdon on folclicre sprǽce,

    • Hml. S. 32, 247
      • .
public (in contrast with secret)
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  • Tó ansýne folclicre

    (ad faciem publicam)

    geþyld hí híwiað, and on geþance yrsunge áttor hí behýdað,

    • Scint. 9, 12
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of the common people, plebeian, common
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  • Of cyrliscum lífe and of folclicum gedeorfe

    ex vita rustica et ex plebeio labore,

    • R. Ben. 138, 22
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  • Án his þeówa his gesíða wæs. . . and samod hí gereordoden swá swá gelican. Þreo geár hé férde mid þám folclicum cempum,

    • Hml. S. 31, 40.
like the common people, common, without distinction or excellence:
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  • Móna se þrí and twéntigoða cild ácenned folclic,

    • Lch. iii. 194, 22.

  • Hé næs begangende ídele spellunge folclicra (-ric-, MS. ) manna,

    • Guth. 12, 17
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having many people, populous
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  • Folclicere

    populosae (civitaiis),

    • An. Ox. 4887
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  • Betwyx twám folclicum

    inter duo populosa (praedia),

    • 3789.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. folch-líh popularis, plebius.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “folc-lic.” 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/45354.

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