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having an excessive appetite for food,
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  • Consumptor, i. devorator gífre, grǽdig

    gluto,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 2.

  • Grédge

    ambrones,

      100, 12.

  • Grǽdige gúðrincas (

    the cannibals

    ),
      An. 155.
of animals
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  • Geoguð myrwe grǽdig,

      Rä. 39, 2.

  • Grǽdigre scelfre

    voracis mergulae,

      Hpt. Gl. 418, 69.

  • Earn, grǽdigne gúðhafoc,

      Chr. 937; P. 109, 22.

  • Moldwyrmas, gífre and grǽdige,

      Seel. 74.
of some part of the consumer which is connected with eating
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  • Tóþas grǽdige (to þas idge,

      MS.), Ph. 407.

  • Mid grǽdigum lippum

    labris lurconibus, i. uorantibus,

      An. Ox. 700: Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 51.

  • Mid grǽdigum byrenre grimnysse ceáflum

    rabidis ursinę ferocitatis rictibus, i. faucibus, An. Ox. 1475. (3 a) figuratively :-- Grǽdigum múþes ceáflum ambronis (taken to be dat. pl.) orci, i. mortis faucibus,

      An. Ox. 836.
  • I a. with gen. of food :-- See
of sexual appetite
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  • Grǽdig wemmend

    lasciuus, i. feruidus in luxuria scortator,

      An. Ox. 3338.
eager for gain, covetous, avaricious
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  • Ná bútan ofermódignysse mæg grǽdig (

    cupidus

    ) beón funden,
      Scint. 111, 7.

  • Were grǽdigum and fæsthafelum bútan geráde ys ǽht,

      110, 15.

  • God nele ꝥ wé beón grǽdige gýtseras, ne eác for woruldgylpe forwurpan úre ǽhta,

      Hml. S. 16, 329.

  • His gingran, gífre and grǽdige (cf. ágan ús þis wuldres leóht eall tó ǽhte, 253),

      Sat. 192.
  • Grédige, 32.

  • Grǽdige

    cupidas,

      Wülck. Gl. 253, 28.

  • Gítsung ontent ðæs mannes mód tó máran ǽhte, and swá hé máre hæfð swá hé grǽdigra bið, Hml. Th. ii. 220, 9. ¶ here probably belongs :-- On grǽdigum

    cupidineo,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 137. 61. III a. with gen. :--
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keen, eager
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  • Grédig

    inians,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 110, 59.

  • Grǽdig

    inhians,

      43, 75.

  • Mín módsefa hweorfeð wíde ..., cymeð eft tó mé gífre and grǽdig, Seef. 62. IV a. with gen. :-- Hé wearð eft suá ungemetlíce grǽdig ðæs gódan deáþes

    in bonorum necem post didicit anhelare,

      Past. 37, 2.
that manifests eager desire
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  • Hire on hafelan hringmǽl ágól grǽdig gúðleóð,

      B. 1522.
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v. æle-grǽdig, ofer-grǽdig.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “grǽdig.” 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/51119.

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