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ge-metlíce

  • adverb
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Substitute:
in due measure or
amount
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  • Ðæt hé him tó tíde gemetlíce gedæle ðone hwǽte ut det illis in tempore tritici mensuram, Past. 459, 12. (l a) in time, early :-- Sí gedón [nón] gemet-lícor

    agatur nona temperius,

      R. Ben. 1. 81, 18.
in a fitting manner, meetly, suitably
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  • Ðonne ðá láreówas ongietað ðæt hí gemetlíce and medomlíce (

    modis congruetitibus)

    lǽrað,
      Past. 461, 30.
moderately, in moderation, temperately,
of a person's action
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  • Wrec ðé gemetlíce,

      Prov. K. 46.
  • Ðǽr ðé áuht tweóge, lofa ðæt gemetlíce, 62 : 70: Solil. H. 48, 19.

  • Hé beór ne drince, and gemetlíce wín and eala,

      Lch. ii. 88, ii.

  • Ne gémdon hié nánes fyrenlustes, búton swíþe gemetlíce þá gecynd beeódan ; ealne weg hí ǽton ǽne on dæg

      , Bt. 15 ; F. 48, 7.

  • Ne ic máran getilige tó haldænne, þonne ic gemetlíce bí been mage

    (nec aliud quidquam praeter necessarium victum),

      Solil. H. 35, 17.

  • Gemetlícost,

      Met. 8, 16.
of the operation of things (disease, & c.)
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  • Hé wæs lícumlicre untrym-nesse þrycced, hwæþere tó ðon gemetlíce (

    adeo moderate)

    ꝥ hé ealle þá tíd mihte ge sprecan ge gongan,
      Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 488, 14.
regularly, in due order. Cf. ge-metgian ; III
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  • Nǽron nó swá gewislíce, ne swá endebyrdlíce, ne swá gemetlíce hiora stede and hiora ryne funden on hiora stówum and on hiora tídum

    non tam certus naturae ordo pro-cederel, nec tam dispositos motus, locis, temporibus explicaret, Bt.

      35, 2 ; F. 158, 3.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-mezlíhho commode.]
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v. un-gemetlíce.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-metlíce.” 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/48902.

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