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hǽðen

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
hǽðen, adj.

HEATHEN, pagan, gentilea heathena heathen, gentile womanethnicus, gentilis, paganus, samaritanusa heathen

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Gif ungefullod cild fǽrlíce biþ gebroht tó ðam mæssepreóste hé hit mót fullian sóna ðæt hit ne swelte hǽðen if an unbaptized child be brought to the mass-priest suddenly, he must baptize it at once, that it die not heathen, L.

hál

(adj.)
Grammar
hál, adj.

Whole, hale, well, in good health, sound, safe, without fraud, honest; often used in salutation

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Gif hie mon gelácnian mǽge ðæt hie hál síe if it [the broken sinew] can be cured so that it be sound, L. Alf. pol. 75; Th. i. 100, 4. Mannes sunu com sécean and hál dón ðæt forwearþ venit filius hominis quærere et saluare quod perierat, Lk.

Linked entry: hǽl

ó-leccan

(v.)
Grammar
ó-leccan, -liccan, -læcan; p. -lecte, -lehte , -læhte.

to treat gently, to soothe, caressto be obsequious, pay court to, fawn upon, flatter, to try to gain a person's good will by unworthy meansto gain good will by worthy means, to propitiate, be submissiveof things to gratify, charm, give pleasure

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Th. 366, 15; Reb. 12. of things to gratify, charm, give pleasure Ealle ða óðru gód óleccaþ ðam móde and hit ret se lust ána ólecþ ðam líchoman ánum swíðost cetera omnia jucunditatem animo videantur afferre, Bt. 24, 3; Fox 84, 23-25.

Linked entry: óliccan

ge-tellan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-tellan, ic -telle, ðú -telest, he -teleþ, pl. -tellaþ; p. -tealde, pl. -tealdon; pp. -teald, -teled

To tellnumberreckonesteemconsiderascribeassignnumerarecomputarereputarecompararedinumerare

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Ðæt Mæcedonisce gewinn ðæt mon mæg to ðám mǽstan gewinnum getellan the Macedonian war which may be reckoned amongst the greatest wars, Ors, 4, 11; Bos. 98, 18.

Linked entry: ge-talian

cyric-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
cyric-líc, circ-líc, cyrc-líc; adj.

Like a church, ecclesiastical ecclesiasticus wrote the ecclesiastical history of our island and nation in five books

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Monad mid gelomlícre smeáwunge and leornunge cyriclícra gewrita admonitus ecclesiasticarum frequenti meditatione scripturarum, Bd. 5, 21; S. 642, 26: 5, 23; S. 645, 15. Mid óðrum cyriclícum m

ge-cwéme

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-cwéme, adj. [cwéme pleasant, pleasing]

Pleasantpleasinggratefulacceptablefitjŏcundusgrātusplăcĭtuscomplăcĭtusacceptus

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Swá him gecwémastwæs as was most pleasing to him, H. R. 103, 6

twelfta

(n.; num.; adj.)
Grammar
twelfta, ord. num.
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Móna se twelfta, Lchdm. iii. 190, 4. Hé wæs twelfta sylf, Andr. Kmbl. 1330; An. 665.

Linked entry: epiphania

þweorness

(n.)
Grammar
þweorness, e; f.

crookednessoppositionperversityiniquityevildepravity

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Ðá sceorede ðágyt se yldesta hǽðengylda mid mycelre þwyrnysse the chief idolater still refused most flatly, Homl. Th. i. 72, 10. perversity, iniquity, evil, depravity Mycel is seó þwyrnes (cf. abundabit iniquitas, 8), Wulfst. 82, 17.

untrymness

(n.)
Grammar
untrymness, e; f.

Weaknesssicknessillnessinfirmity

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Of untrymnesse módes oððe líchoman infirmitate, Past. 21; Swt. 159, 1: 56; Swt. 435, 15. In untrymnisse wæs ðú lécedóme in infirmitate sis medicina, Rtl. 105, 11. Hé hǽlde ǽghwilce ádle and ǽghwilce untrymnisse ( infirmitatem ), Mt. Kmbl.

éstfulnes

luxurylasciviousness

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Uton mid ealre éstfulnysse úres módes ðás freólstíde wurðian, Hml. Th. i. 446, 28. Ic þé þæt mid éstfulnysse sylle id ego tibi devotus dabo, Gr. D. 25, 23. Gode mid geornfulnysse and éstfulnysse þénian, LI. Th. ii. 360, 31. luxury, lasciviousness.

forþ-genge

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Th. i. 560, 22. going on continuously, in full operation, flourishing, v. forþ, 3 a Ðínre módor forligr and fela unlybban syndon forðgenge adhuc fornicationes matris tui et veneficia multa vigent (2 Kings 9, 22), Hml. S. 18, 333

ge-drífan

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Substitute: To drive, to force a living creature to move Gif ic in Belzebub fordrífo dióules, suno iúera in huǽm hiá gedrífes (eiciunt) 1, Mt. L. 12, 27. Hé gedrifen wæs (agebalur) from diówlæ on woesternum, Lk. L. 8, 29.

tweógan

Grammar
tweógan, <b>I c.</b> add after Swt. 192, 15: 5, 7; S. 230, 20. <b>II a.</b>
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Hit mæg beón tweód fram unstrangum módum hwæþer hí sýn þe ne sýn þǽr andwearde ab infirmis potest mentibus dubitari utrumne ..., 177, 8.

fyrst

Grammar
fyrst, adj.

first, foremost in positionforemost in virtue or worth, best, of great excellence

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., noble destroyer of life; not the more joyous was he (i. e. he was sorely troubled), to the flames would the best of men give his dear son as a sacrifice, Exod. 399

ofer-sprǽce

(adj.)
Grammar
ofer-sprǽce, adj.

speaking too much, talkative, loquaciouszungun linguam magniloquumsaying more than is just or true

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Ger. ubarsprácha zungun linguam magniloquum.] saying more than is just or true (v. ofer-sprecan) Ða fácnes fullan weoloras and ða ofersprǽcan labia dolosa, Ps. Th. ll, 3. Ða ofersprécan ðe mé yfel cweðaþ qui maligne loquuntur adversum me, 34, 24

ofer-weorpan

(v.)

to overthrow, throw downto throw (water, etc.) upon, to sprinkleTo fall down

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Ðý gewunelícan þeáwe horsa æfter wérinysse hit (the horse) ongan walwian and on gehweðære sídan hit oferweorpan consueto equorum more, quasi post lassitudinem in diversum latus vicissim sere volvere coepit, Bd. 3, 9; S. 533, 40.

on-tendan

(v.)
Grammar
on-tendan, p. -tende; pp. -tended, -tend.

to kindle, set fire to, to fireto kindle emotion or passion, to excite, inflame

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Ðonne hé ( the moon) of hyre (the sun ) ontend byþ, Lchdm. iii. 242, 12. Ontend succensus, Hpt. Gl. 507, 17. Antend, 471, 22.

ge-cynd

(n.)
Grammar
ge-cynd, f. also has gen. ge-cynd (Bl. H. 31, 32); dat.
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H. 33, 33. nature in general, in the abstract, the established order of things His mód and his andgit ðæt gecynd áscierpð cujus sensum natura exacuit, Past. 69, 8.

byrgen

(n.)
Grammar
byrgen, byrgenn, birgen, byrigen, burgen, e; f. [beorg tumulus]
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After the. burial, a low circular mound was raised over the grave.

ge-standan

(v.)
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Móder his and bróðero gestódon úta, Mt. L. 12, 46. Gestóðdon alle mégas his farra, Lk. L. R. 23, 49. Þonne gé beforan kyningum gestondan, Bl. H. 171, 17. Mannes swaðu þon gelícost þe þǽr sum mon gestóde, 203, 36.