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ga-máhlic

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ga-máhlic, Take here <b>ge-máglic</b> in Dict., and add: , <b>ge-málic</b>
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  • Tó ðǽm gemálecan

    ad inportunum

    (cf. An. Ox. 807 under ge-máh). Wrt. Voc. ii. a. l.
shameless, impudent
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  • For þan wé nellan nán gýmeleás yrfe forgyldan, búton hit forstolen sý; mænige men specað gemáhlice sprǽce

    (many men make most impudent claims for compensation.

    The Latin version has 'fraudulentas locutiones'),
      Ll. Th. i. 238, 11.
wanton
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  • Hié him andwyrdon ꝥ hit gemálic wǽre and unryhtlic (that it would be a wanton outrage) þæt swá oferwlenced cyning sceolde winnan on swá earm folc

    responderunt, stolide opulentissimum regem adversus inopes sumsisse helium.

      Ors. 10; S. 44,
of supplication,
importunate.
in a good sense,
persistent, pertinacious
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  • Se mildheorta God wile þæt wé mid gemáglicum bénum his mildheortnesse ofgán,

      Hml. Th. ii. 126, 5.
in a bad sense
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  • Hé fylgede þám hálgan were mid gemáglicum bedum (gemálicum bénum,

    v.l. importunis precibus

    ),
      Gr. D. 156, 2: Hml. Th. ii. 176, 15.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ga-máhlic.” 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/48817.

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