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heardlíce

  • adverb
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  • Heardlíce

    dure, i. pertinaciter, pessime,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 142, 16
    • .
boldly, hardily.
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Cf. heard; II, 1.
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  • Hé þæt folc bewerode wið þá hǽðenan leóda heardlíce mid wǽmnum,

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 3
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hardly, without ease.
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Cf. heard; V, 1.
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  • Se man, sé ðe wile on ǽlce tíd heardlíce and forwernedlíce lyfigean, sé bið fulfremed,

    • Wlfst. 284, 8
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severely, inflexibly
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  • Tó écrc forwyrde heardlíce

    (districtius)

    gedéman,

    • Bd. 4, 25
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    • Sch. 504, 1
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in a way that causes pain.
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Cf. hearde; IV.
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  • Banan heardlíce, grimme ongieldað,

    • Sal. 131
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with intensive force with verbs implying pain, injury, &c.
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Cf. hearde; V, 1
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  • Þéh se mennisca deófol synfullum móte heardlíce derian,

    • Wlfst. 273, 22
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  • Se bealofulla hýneð heardlíce,

    • Cri. 260
    • .
of energetic action, physical or mental.
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Cf. heard; VIII.
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  • Þæt mon heardlíce gníde

    (collidendo vehementius)

    mealmstán,

    • Ors. 4, 13
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    • S. 212, 27
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  • Ongunnon hí heardlíce feohtan,

    • By. 261
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  • Ic nimo ł heartlíce (geteá (?), cf. 21, 6 geteá

    trahere) traham,

    • Jn. L. 12, 32.
  • Hé genam þá heardlíce þurh heora láre on his orþance þá egeslican dǽda,

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 20
    • .
not easily, only by degrees
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  • Ðone blindo heartlíce gémeð

    caecum paulatim curat

      (v.
    • Mk. 8, 22-25
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    • MK. P. 3, 20
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  • Heartlíce onginnes

    paulatim incipiens,

    • Mt. p. 11, 11
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  • heardlíce, adv.