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tǽl

(n.)
Grammar
tǽl, e; f.(?)

Evil speaking, calumny, detraction

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Evil speaking, calumny, detraction Tǽl blasphemia, vituperatio, Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 9: detractatio, vituperatio, 139, 44. 'Ælc tǽl sié ánumen fram eów.' ... Hit biþ unnyt ðæt mon tǽl útane forlǽte gif se yfela willa ðone onwald hæfþ ðæs íngeðonces 'omis

Linked entry: tál

tæl

(adj.)
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Add: v. gerím-tæl: -tæl; adj

-tǽl

(suffix)

Similar entry: leóf-tǽle

tæl

(n.)
Grammar
tæl, tel, es; n.

A tale, number, series

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A tale, number, series Heora tel biþ swá menigfeald, ðæt hit oferstíhþ sandceosles gerím, Homl. Th. i. 536, 33. Ðæra etendra tal manducantium numerus, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 14, 21. Of tale numero, Jn. Skt. Rush. 6, 10. Tele laterculo, numero, Hpt. Gl. 442,

Linked entries: tal tel fore-tal

tǽl-hleahtor

(n.)
Grammar
tǽl-hleahtor, es; m.

Scornful laughter, derision

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Scornful laughter, derision Tǽlhlehter derisio, Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 4

Linked entry: hleahtor

tæl-met

(n.)
Grammar
tæl-met, es; n.

A measure expressed by number

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A measure expressed by number Is tó ðære tíde tælmet hwíle seofon and twentig nihtgerímes there is to that season a space of time expressed by the number twenty-seven if the reckoning be by days, Andr. Kmbl. 226; An. 113

tæl-cræft

(n.)
Grammar
tæl-cræft, es; m.

Arithmetic

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Arithmetic Mæg geseón ǽlc man ðe telcræftas ǽnig gesceád can ( that knows anything of arithmetic ), ðæt hit máre is ðonne þreó hund geára syððan ðyllíc feoh wæs farende on eorðan, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 699

tæl-mearc

(n.)
Grammar
tæl-mearc, e; f.

A date

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A date Sume ǽr sume síð sume in úrra æfter tælmearce tída gemyndum some early, some late, some by the date in the memory of our times, Exon. Th. 154, 27; Gú. 849

ge-tæl

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Add: the precise sum of any collection of individual objects Wæs gemenigfylld þæt getel cristenra manna, Hml. Th. i. 44, 21. Symle bið háligra manna getel geeácnod . . . Nis þæt getel Godes gecorenra lytel, 536, 24-26. JJæt getel ðǽra fixa laef máran

ge-tæl

Grammar
ge-tæl, v. heáfod-getæl, hundfeald-getæl, þúsendfeald-getæl.

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tǽl-wirðe

(adj.)
Grammar
tǽl-wirðe, -wierðe, -wyrðe; adj.

Blameworthy, reprehensible

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Blameworthy, reprehensible Gecnáwan hwæt tǽlwierðe biþ quae reprehendenda sunt cognoscere, Past. 28; Swt. 195, 8. Tǽlwyrðes (-wierðes, Cott. MSS.), 195, 24

tǽl-lic

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Add: blameable, reprehensible Gif ǽnig bið gemét teállic si quisque repertus fuerit reprehensibilis, R. Ben. I. 9, 54, 7. Þǽr ma[n] wógerlice leóð and tǽllice singe ubi amatoria et turpia cantantur, Chrd. 78, 34

ge-tæl

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tæl, -tel, -teal, es; pl. nom. acc. -talu; n.

a numberseriesreckoningcomputationnumerusseriescomputuscomputatioa companyracetribecenturiatribusa book of reckoninga registercataloguelaterculumcatalogus= κατάλoγos

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a number, series, reckoning, computation; numerus, series, computus, computatio Ðæra etendra getæl wæs fíf þúsenda wera manducantium fuit numerus quinque millia virorum, Mt. Bos. 14, 21. Seó Abbudisse hét hine [Cædmon] lǽran ðæt getæl ðæs hálgan stǽres

Linked entries: ge-tel ge-teal ge-tel

tǽl-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
tǽl-leás, adj.

Blameless

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Blameless Biscepe gedafnaþ ðæt hé sié tǽlleás oportet episcopum irreprehensibilem esse, Past. 8; Swt. 53, 10

tǽl-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
tǽl-líc, adj.

Blasphemous

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Blasphemous Tǽllíce word blasphemiae, Mt. Kmbl. 15, 19, MS. A

ge-tæl

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-tæl, adj.
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Take here what is given in Dict. under ge-tal, and add : Having mastery of Getælne competem (l. compotem. v. dialec-ticae artis compotem, Aid. 46, 8), Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 27

ofer-tæl

(adj.)
Grammar
ofer-tæl, adj.
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That estimates too highly (?), superstitious Warna symle ofertæle andgyt caue semper superstitiosam intelligentiam, Scint. 218, 10

tæl-sum

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tǽl-wirþe

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Án þing wæs ꝥ gesewen wæs on him tǽlwyrðe ( reprehensibile ) beón, Gr. D. 203, 21. Gif hié on ðǽm cúðan gewislíce ongietað hwæt ðǽron tǽlwyrðes bið si de expertis, quidquid disputationis audiunt, veraciter cognoscunt. Past. 441, 16. Hé lýfeð sumum mannum

ofer-tæl

(n.)
Grammar
ofer-tæl, es; n.

An odd number

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An odd number Ðæra pipercorna sý ofertæl, ðæt ys ðý forman dæge án and þrittig, and ðý óðrum dæge seofontýne, and dý þriddan dæge þreótýne, Lchdm. i. 288, 8