Browse by Letter
Choose language
Old English Dictionary Entry

Heóflan

Back to Letter H
Definitions

Definitions

1 definitions

1 heóflan

Add: I. absolute :-- In þám dæge heofene and eorðe cwaciað and heófiað and ealle þá ðing þe on him syndon in quo omnis creatura congemescit. Wlfst. 182, 9. Eádige beóð ðá þe heófiað beati qui lugent, Hml. Th. i. 550, 27. Hí biterlíce on wópe heófodon, Hml. S. 23, 66. For þám earmlican swǽsnyssum þissera heófiendra (-igendra,I a. where the occasion for mourning is given :-- Þá þe for hýnðum heófiað, Hml. Th. i. 550, 29. Þ UNCERTAIN hé heófige for middan-geardes hryrum . . . þá sceolon heófian for middangeardes tóworpennysse, 612, 20-28. II. trans. :-- Þænne wé heófiað ꝥ wé yfele dydon dum plangimus quod male gessimus, Scint. 47, 17. Árleás sáwl byð heófud inpia anima plangitur, 42, II. heoflan
Similar Words

Similar Words

Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛖᚩᚠᛚᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Wlfst.
Wulfstan
View All Sources