Ge-miltan

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

ge-miltan

Take here ge-mieltan, -myltan in Dict. , and add ge-meltan. (1) to melt, liquefy :-- Gemaelteð (gemelteð, Ps. Rdr., gemyltet, Bl. Gl. ) liquefaciet, Ps. Srt. 147, 18. Hé ádrígþ þá wǽtan, and wirð se swile swá heard swá stán, and ne mæg hine mon gemeltan ne gehnescian, Lch. ii. 212, 22. Gemaelted (liquefacta) is eorðe, Ps. Srt. 74, 4. Healfe cuppan clǽnes gemyltes spices, Lch. iii. 5. On gemelt weax gedón, ii. 72, 7. (2) to digest :-- Heald georne l se mete si gemylt, Lch. ii. 284, 3. Sele him þá mettas þá þe ne sién tó raðe gemelte, 196, 16. (3) to weaken, abate :-- Se gesíð hét sendan on fýr Agapan and Chonie, and þá ꝥ fýr waes gemelted (had burnt itself out), þá wǽron ðá fǽmnan tó Críste geleóred, and þá líchoman wǽron swá gesunde ꝥ him næs forbærnéd ne feax ne hrægl, Shrn. 69, 33.

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