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EÁCA

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1 EÁCA

m. An addition, EEKING, increase, usury, advantage; additāmentum :-- Ðeáh mín bán and blód bútú geweorþen eorþan to eácan though my bones and blood both become an increase to the earth, Exon. 38 a; Th. 125, 10; Gú. 352. Þincþ ðé lytel eáca ðínra gesǽlþa does it seem to thee little addition to thy felicities? Bt. 20; Fox 72, 12. Is witena gehwám wópes eáca there is increase of weeping to every man, Salm. Kmbl. 922; Sal. 460. Ic [Ælfríc Abbod] geset hæbbe feówertig lárspella, and sumne eácan ðǽrto I [Abbot Ælfric] have composed forty sermons, and some addition thereto, Ǽlfc. T. 27, 18. Gif he hæfþ sumne eácan yfeles if he has some addition of evil, Bt. 38, 3; Fox 200, 19. For dæs yfles eácan for the addition of evil, 200, 21. Ne gehéne ðú hine mid ðý eácan oppress him not with the usury, L. Alf. 35; Th. i. 52, 23; neque humĭlia ilium ūsūra tua, Wilk. 31, 45. ¶ To eácan besides, moreover :-- Ðæt wæs to eácan óðrum unarīmedum yflum that was besides other innumerable evils: literally, in or for, addition to, etc. Bt. 1; Fox 2, 11. To eácan himselfum besides himself: literally, in addition to, Bt. 26, 2; Fox 92, 20. Óðer is to eácan andgete the second is moreover manifest, Exon. 26 a; Th. 76, 21; Cri. 1243. DER. mægen-eáca, ofer-. -eaca,eaca
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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Cri.
Christ (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Gú.
Guthlac (OE poem)
Sal.
Psalms of Solomon (OE)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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