Swicollíce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Swicollíce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: With deceit, with guile, deceitfully, fraudulently, craftily

Definitions

1 swicollíce

ad :-- Hé cwæð ðæt hí wære wurdan ðæt hý ǽnig man tó swicol-líce ne bepǽhte mid leáslícre láre'uidete, ne quis uos seducat, ' Wulfst. 88, 26: 55, 3. Ðæt wyrse is, ð æt hé swicollíce hiwige, swylce hé árfæstes módes sý, 53. 26. Aman smeáde swicollíce embe ðæt hú hé eall ludéisc cynn fordyde Haman plotted how to destroy all the Jewish race, Homl. Ass. 96, 145. swicollice

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚹᛁᚳᚩᛚᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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