Orne

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

orne

Substitute: orne; adj. Not mean, excessive. (1) of amount :-- Wið ornum útgange, and wið þon þe mon gemígan ne mæge, Lch. iii. 70, 25. (2) of quality or character, not in due measure, harmful (?), injurious :-- Úsic þá earfeðo forléton, and wé ðá sioðþan bútan orenum þingum mete þigdon (ab securis nobis epule capiuntur), Nar. 24, 2. [Cf.Þe on was ornure of mete and of druncne þen þe twei oðre the one ate and drank more luxuriously than the other two (?), A. R. 370.]

Verwandte Wörter: ornlíce. orne