Un-hold

Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-hold

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: next word. un-hold

Definitions

1 un-hold

adj. I. unfriendly, hostile :-- Ðæt dyde uphold mann inimicus homo hoc fecit, Mt. Kntbl. 13, 28. Hé ástealde swíðe strang gyld ... and him wæs ðá unhold eall ðæt his ǽr gyrnde, Chr. 1040; Erl. 166, 22. Wearð ríces ðeóden unhold þeóden ðám ðe ǽhte geaf, Cd. Th. 218, 4; Dan. 34. Hé him ða sǽtnunge gewearnode ðæs unholdan cyninges regis sibi infesti insidias vitavit, Bd. 2, 12; S. 515, 12. Ealle his ǽhta unholde fýnd, ríce réðe mann gedǽle, Ps. Th. 108, 11. Hé mé álýsde of huntum unholdum, 90, 3. II. unfaithful, disloyal :-- Se unholda ðeówa, Homl. Th. ii. 556, 18. [Monies monnes sare iswinc habbeð oft unholde, O. E. Homl. i. 161, 36. Unholde uorureten þe strencðe of his soule alieni comederunt robur ejus, A. R. 222, 10. O. Sax. un-hold unfriendly, hostile: O. H. Ger. un-hold inimicus, unholde; pl. eumenides.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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