Old English Dictionary Entry

Ofer-etol

Part of speech: -ettol;

Definitions

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1 ofer-etol

adj. Given to excess in eating, gluttonous :-- Ofereotol edax vel glutto, Wrt. Voc. i. 86, 49. Se mynstres hordere sí ... wís, sýfre and ná oferettol (-etol, MS. T.), R. Ben. 54, 8. Ðes oferetola man hic comedo, Ælfc. Gr. 36; Som. 38, 47. Gehiéren ða oferetolan ða word ðe Krist cuæþ: Behealdaþ eów ðæt eówre heortan ne sín gehefegode mid oferǽte, Past. 43, 9; Swt. 317, 8, 16. ofer-etol

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Runic Inscription

ᚩᚠᛖᚱ-ᛖᛏᚩᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Gr.: Ælfric's Grammar
Past.: Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
R.: Riddles (Exeter Book)
Som.: Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Swt.: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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