An-medla

Old English Dictionary Entry

An-medla

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: on-medla, on-mædla, an; Related words:

Definitions

1 an-medla

m. Pride, pomp, arrogance, pre-. sumption; superbia, fastidium, arrogantia, præsumptio :-- For ðam anmedlan ðe hie ǽr drugon for the arrogance which they before had practised, Cd. 214; Th. 269, 16; Sat. 74. Ðú for anmedlan in ǽht bǽre [MS. bére] húsl-fatu hálegu on hand werum thou, in thy presumption, barest for a possession the holy sacrificial vessels into the hands of men, Cd. 212; Th. 262, 22; Dan. 748. an-medla

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ᚪᚾ-ᛗᛖᛞᛚᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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