cræftig
- adjective
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Sum biþ fugelbona hafeces cræftig
one is a fowler skilful with the hawk
- Exon. 79 b ;
- Th. 298, 6 ;
- Crä. 81: 97a ;
- Th. 361, 24 ;
- Wal. 24 ;
- Ps. C. 50, 11 ;
- Ps. Grn. ii. 277, 11.
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Án reordode, ðam wæs Iudas nama, wordes cræftig
one spake, whose name was Judas, crafty in word
- Elen. Kmbl. 837 ;
- El. 419 ;
- Exon. 97 b ;
- Th. 364, 18 ;
- Wal. 72 ;
- Beo. Th. 2936 ;
- B. 1466.
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He sende cræftige wyrhtan
misit architectos
- Bd. 5, 21 ;
- S. 643, 7.
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Móde ðæs cræftig
with a mind so cunning
- Exon. 79 b ;
- Th. 299, 6 ;
- Crä. 98.
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Céne and cræftig
brave and virtuous
- Bt. Met. Fox 10, 101 ;
- Met. 10, 51 ;
- Bt. 36, 6 ;
- Fox 182, 10, 11.
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Sume men bióþ cræftige
some men are virtuous
- 39, 10 ;
- Fox 228, 7.
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Yldo beóþ on eórþan ǽghwæs cræftig
age is powerful over everything on earth
- Salm. Kmbl. 584 ;
- Sal. 291 ;
- Beo. Th. 3929 ;
- B. 1962 ;
- Chr. 1066 ;
- Th. 334, 1 ;
- Edw. 5.
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Weras wísfæste, wordes cræftige
wise men, powerful of speech
- Elen. Kmbl. 628, 630 ;
- El. 314, 315.
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Nán cræftigra is ðonne ðu
no one is more skilful than thou
- Bt. 33, 4 ;
- Fox 128, 18.
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Omérus wæs leóþa cræftgast
Homer was most skilful in poems
- Bt. Met. Fox 30, 4 ;
- Met. 30, 2.
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Elþeódge wíf hæfdon gegán ðone cræftgestan dǽl
strange women had overcome the most powerful part
- Ors. 1. 10 ;
- Bos. 33, 41.
Bosworth, Joseph. “cræftig.” 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/6653.
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