Wíf-líc

adj. I. womanly, of a woman, female, feminine :-- Wíflíc muliebris, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Zup. 17, 17. Wíflíces femineis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 20. Wíflícum lícome of woeres ðú saldest líchome fruma femineo corpore de viri dares carne principium, Rtl. 109, 15. Bútan wíflícre bysnunge without an example among women, Homl. Th. i. 198, 5. Mid wíflíce níðe with all a woman's hate, Ors. 1,2 ; Swt. 39, 18. Ðæt hé ne forðon wíflíce háde árede ut ne sexui quidem muliebri parceret, Bd. 2, 20; S. 521, 24. Áwyrp mé hyder ðínne scyccels, ðæt ic mæge ða wíflícan týddernysse oferwreón, Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 211. Ia. as a grammatical term, feminine (gender) :-- Æfter gecynde syndon twá cyn on namum, masculinum and femininum, ðæt is werlic and wíflíc ; wíflíc cyn byð haec femina ðis wíf . . . Neutrum is náðor cynn, ne werlíces ne wíflíces, Ælfc. Gr. 6; Zup. 18, 5-15. II. wifely, matronly :-- Wíflícre matronalis, Hpt. Gl. 505, 36. Wíflícere, 520, 2. Ða wíflícan, Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 22. [O. H. Ger. wíp-líh muliebris, femineus.] wif-lic