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Hetelíce

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1 hetelíce

Add: I. of action or motion, violently, furiously, fiercely :-- Hét hé him his seax árǽcan . . . and hine sylfne hetelíce ðýde, þæt him on ácwehte, Hml. Th. i. 88, 10: Hml. S. 15, 24. Þá Engliscan hí hindan hetelíce slógon, Chr. 1066; P. 199, 15. Þá gestódon hine hundas hetelíce swýðe dogs attacked him furiously. Hml. S. 12, 52. Hé sǽde ꝥ sum hund burce hetelíce on ánne man, 31, 1132. Manega hús hetelíce feóllon many houses fell with great violence, 15, 94. Þá fýnd hine úp geond þá lyft sume hwíle feredon, þæt hé on his fylle þý hetelícor hreósan sceolde, Hml. Th. i. 380, 28. II. of disposition,malignantly, with ill-will :-- Þyses cyninges cwén wæs forcúþost wífa, Gezabel geháten, hetelíce gemódod, Hml. S. 18, 50. Ðá Malchus þás word gehýrde þe se portgeréfa him swá hetelíce wæs tó spræcende, 23, 718. [N. E. D. hately.] hetelice,hete-lice
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛖᛏᛖᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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