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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gewitfull

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1 un-gewitfull

adj. I. foolish, insensate :-- Eálá gé ungewitfullan Galata, hwá gehefegode eów O insensati Galatae, quis vos fascinavit? Past. 31; Swt. 207, 14. Welan and weorþscipes hí willniaþ, and ðonne hí hine habbaþ, ðonne wénap hí swá ungewitfulle ðæt hí habban ða sóþan gesǽlþa, Bt. 32, 3; Fox 118, 30. II. mad, insane, not in one's senses :-- Ða wódðrága ðæs ungewitfullan monnes se lǽce gehǽlð furor insanorum ad salutem medico reducitur, Past. 26; Swt. 183, 21. Sume ða untruman wǽron dumbe, sume ungewitfulle, Homl. Ass. 180, 364. un-gewitfull
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛖᚹᛁᛏᚠᚢᛚᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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