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þegnung-gást

(n.)
Grammar
þegnung-gást, es; m.
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A ministering spirit Englas beóþ tó ðéninggástum fram Gode hider on worulde ásende, ðæt hí beón on fultume his gecorenum ( nonne angeli sunt administratorii spiritus, in ministerium missi propter eos, qui haereditatem capient salutis?

un-fæstrǽdness

(n.)
Grammar
un-fæstrǽdness, e; f.

Instabilityinconstancylevity

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On heora wandlunga hié gecýþdon heora unfæstrǽdnesse, Bt. 7, 2; Fox 16, 32 note

dílgian

(v.)
Grammar
dílgian, dílegian.
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Naman heora ðú dýlegodest nomen eorum delesti, Ps. Spl. 9, 5. Ðonne þú micel weaxbred habban wille, þonne stríc þú mid þínum twám fingrum on þíne breóst forewearde swilce þú dýlige ( as if you were wiping out something ), Tech. ii. 128, 13. Add

fultuman

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Ne fultumað hé nóht tó his hiéremonna niédðearfe subditorum necessitatibus minime concurrunt, Past. 136, 3. Hé tiohchode him tó fultemanne ( ut solatium daret ), 305, 4. Fultemendum adsessore, Txts. 42, 95: Wrt. Voc. ii. 7, 34. Add

nytweorþ-ness

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Gif se hýredes ealdor tó lytele note and nytwyrðnesse (-weorþ-, v. l.) on his heorde angyt quicquid paterfamilias utilitatis minus potuerit invenire, R. Ben. 11, 2. Add

á-stihting

(n.)
Grammar
á-stihting, e; f.

Instigation

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Gl. 469, 65.Napier (v. note) takes the word as an error for átihtinge, but cf. Paulus for his líchaman stihtunga bæd, (de carnis suae stimulo) Gr. D. 166, 25.]

gif

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Þú ne bist unscyldig wið mé, gif þú on ídelnesse cýst mínne noman (cf. nec habebit insontem Dominus eum, qui assumpserit nomen Domini frustra Ex. 20, 7) Ll. Th. i. 44, 8: Cri. 1310 : Mód. 45 : An. 1570 : 1614.

heall

a residencepalacea templea court of law

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Gif mon on níwne weall unádrúgodne micelne hróf and hefigne onsett, ðonne ne timbreð hé healle ac hryre (non habitaculum, sed ruina fabricatur), Past. 383, 33.

áwo

(adv.)
Grammar
áwo, adv.

Alwayseversemperunquam

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Áwo to ealdre for evermore, 14 b; Th. 30, 13, note; Cri. 479

flot-man

(n.)
Grammar
flot-man, -mann, -mon, -monn, es; m.

A float-mansailorpiratenautapīrāta

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Flotmonna freá chief of mariners [Noah ], Cd. 72; Th. 89, 3; Gen. 1475

Linked entry: flet-mon

in-bryrdniss

(n.)
Grammar
in-bryrdniss, e; f.

Inspirationanimationcompunctionfeeling

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Tó inbryrdnesse [inbyrdnesse, MS.] and tó gemynde ðære æfterfyligendra ad instruetionem memoriamque sequentium, 17; S. 585, 16, note

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wundor-cræft

Grammar
wundor-cræft, <b>. I.</b>
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, but note seorsum; sundurcræftiglíce (wundorcræftiglíce(?))

wiþ-standan

(v.)
Grammar
wiþ-standan, p. -stód, pl. stódon; p. -standen.

to withstandresistto stand againstsucceed in opposingbe a match forrefuteto stand in the waybe a hindranceobstructpreventbe a preventiveto stand offkeep away,be absentto be hostile

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In. 31; Th. i. 122, 4 note. to be hostile Ic wiðstande ongén eów ponam faciem contra vos, Lev. 26, 17

wérig

(adj.)
Grammar
wérig, adj.
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Th. 5866; B. 2937. weary at heart, sad, grieved Ne mæg wérig mód wyrde wiðstondan, ne se hreó hyge helpe gefremman a soul that is sad may not stand against fate, nor the mind that mourns minister help, Exon. Th. 287, 16; Wand. 15.

hǽlend

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Add: used of the Deity in reference to pre-Christian times as a noun denoting an agent, a saviour Freá mihtig, hǽlend manna, Ps. C. 137. Drihten is mín hǽlend Dominus salus mea. Ps. Th. 26, l. Þú eart mín hǽlend salutare vultus mei, 42, 6.

rúm

(adj.)
Grammar
rúm, adj.

roomy, spacious, ample, extensive roomy, open, unencumbered. long, extended ample, great, liberalunrestricted, clear, free from conditionslaxample, far-reachingliberal.great, noble, august

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. :-- Ne fersc ne mersc, ne rúh ne rúm neither uncleared nor cleared (?) land, Lchdm. iii. 286, 24. Þurh ða rúman per patentes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 69,7.

cwealm

(n.)
Grammar
cwealm, cwélm , es; m. n. [cwelan to die]

Death, destruction, a violent death, slaughter, murder, torment, plague, pestilence, contagion QUALM; mors, pernicies, nex, cædes, homicidium, cruciatus, lues, pestis, pestilentia, contagium

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Ðæt us cwealm on ne becume ne forte occidat nos pestis, Ex. 5, 3. To ðam swíðe awédde se cwealm ðæt hundeahtatig manna of lífe gewiton the plague raged to that degree that eighty men departed from life, Homl.

Linked entries: cwælm cwelm cwylm

deáþ

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a, as being an old u-stem noun. v. deáða gedál (cf. deáþgedál, 936) dreógan, Gú. 206. death, of an individual Þa langan tíd þæs dimman deáðes mortis inamabile tempus, Dóm. L. 14. Hé bið mid wítum þreád æfter his deáþe, Bl. H. 49, 25.

weorpan

(v.)
Grammar
weorpan, (wurpan, wyrpan); p. wearp, pl. wurpon; pp. worpen.
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Ne andswarast ðú nán ðing ágén ðæt ðás ðé on weorpaþ (wurpaþ, v. l.) non respondis quicquam ad ea quae tibi objiciuntur ab his? Mk. Skt. 14, 60.

Linked entries: worpian wurpan

Cetrehta

(n.)
Grammar
Cetrehta, an; m.

CatterickCataracta

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Catterick, near Richmond, Yorkshire; Cataracta, oppidi nomen in agro Richrnondensi Tún, ðe he oftust oneardode wel neáh Cetrehtan, gyt to-dæg mon his naman cneódeþ cujus nomine vicus in quo maxime solebat habitare, juxta Cataractam, usque hodie, cognominatur