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mǽl

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Wright's OE grammar
§119;
a measure, & c.
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  • Nýtenu etað swá ǽr swá hí hit habbað, ac se gesceádwísa man sceal cépan his mǽles,

      Hml. S. 16, 318.

  • Þonne hí etað tó ánes mǽles on dæg

    quando in die una refectio fuerit,

      Chrd. 15, 7.

  • Be hyre (

    St. Æthelthryð) is áwrytan ꝥ heó wel drohtnode tó ánum mǽle fæstende, bútan hit freólsdæg wǽre (cf. seldon bútan máran symbelnesse má þonne ǽne síðe on dæge (semel per diem )

    ꝥ heó wolde mete þicgan,
      Bd. 4, 19; Sch. 443, 17), 20, 42.

  • Gif hwám geboden sý tó ðigene, and hé hit mid gebelge forsace, ne sý him tó gewilnedum mǽle (

    hora qua desideraverit

    ) nánre óðere þigene getíðad,
      R. Ben. 69, 21.

  • Hý on án mǽl tó nónes gereorden

    ad nonam semper reficiant,

      66, 5.

  • Eten gebróþru on twá mǽl, þæt is ǽrest on ðǽre syxtan tíde and eft on ǽfen

    ad sextam reficiant fratres et ad seram cenent,

      65, 14: 63, 15. (See also lencten;
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Bosworth, Joseph. “mǽl.” 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/54953.

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