Old English Dictionary Entry

Go-beorhlíc

Part of speech: -beorglíc;

Definitions

1 definitions

1 go-beorhlíc

adj. Safe, cautious, prudent, becoming; tūtus, circumspectus, dĕcens :-- Gebeorhlícre ys me faran to eá, mid scype mýnum, ðænne faran mid manegum scypum, on huntunge hranes tūtius est mihi īre ad amnem, cum nāve mea, quam īre cum multis nāvĭbus, in venātiōnem bālænæ, Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 21. Gebeorhlíc circumspectus R. Ben. 64. Swilce hit fór Gode gebeorhlíc sý and fór weorulde aberendlíc as it may be becoming before God and tolerable before the world, L. Edg. ii. 1; Th. i. 266, 6 : L. C. S. 2; Th. i. 376, 14. go-beorhlic

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Runic Inscription

ᚷᚩ-ᛒᛇᚱᚻᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

L.: Latin

Works & Authors

C.: Corpus Christi College MS
R.: Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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