Under-licgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Under-licgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 under-licgan

to be subject, submit, yield :-- Ne mæg se preóst mannum ðingian, gif hé synnum underlíð, Homl. Th. ii. 320, 21: Homl. Skt. i. 1, 155. Ne underlicga wé synnum nec succumbamus vitiis, Rtl. 82, 25. Underlicgge hé þreále discipline subjaceat, R. Ben. 56, 12. Ða under-ðiéddan mon sceal lǽran ðæt hí him eáðmódlíce underlicgen subditi admonendi sunt ut humiliter subjaceant, Past. 28; Swt. 189, 20. [O. H. Ger. unter-ligan subjacere.] under-licgan

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾᛞᛖᚱ-ᛚᛁᚳᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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