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Old English Dictionary Entry

Luflíce

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1 luflíce

Add: I. of conduct, treatment, courteously, pleasantly :-- Luflíce affabiliter (instruendo), Wrt. Voc. ii. 80, 64. Hié ús luflíce (benigne) onféngon, Nar. 17, 18. Hé þǽre fǽmnan grétinge luflíce (gratanter) onféng, Guth. Gr. 158, 9. II. of specen :-- Mid þám þe luflíce sprecað tó heora nýhstum cum his qui loquuntur pacem cum proximo suo, Ps. Th. 27, 4. Ðá munecas hit mǽndon lufelíce (complained in courteous terms) tó him, Chr. 1083; P. 214, 18. luf-lice,luflice
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛚᚢᚠᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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