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med-micel

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[The Latin to Guthl. 5 is: Adsumta hordeacei panis particula; the diminutive particula seems to show that medmicel refers to quantity, not to quality, which beren hláf suggests, cf. Bd. 5, 12, infra. ]
add: with reference to quality, degree, &c.
of persons or personal attributes
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  • Ðá metmiclo

    pussillanimes,

      Rtl. 11, 39.
  • Þonne ꝥ moód wile ymb his ágene þæncan, búton tweón hit gehweorfeþ þý medmáre tó his sylfes þearfe

    cum animus interiora appetit, ad haec proculdubio minor redit,

      Gr. D. 5, 7.
  • Þonne ꝥ mód byð tódǽled tó manegum wísum, hit byð þý medmáre (lǽsse, v. l.) tó hwylcum synderlicum þingum

    cum animus dividitur ad multa, fit minor ad singula,

      41, 14.
  • Suá long gié ne dédon ánum ðassa metdmaasta (

    de minoribus his

    ),
      Mt. L. 25, 45, margin.
of things
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  • Hé þǽre ýtemestan yldo his lífes on ancorsetle mid medmiclum hláfe

    (coarse bread;

    pane cibario) and cealde wætere áwreþede,
      Bd. 5, 12 ; Sch. 630, 18.
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