úte-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

úte-weard

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: útan-, út-weard. ute-weard

Definitions

1 úte-weard

adj. Outward, extreme; may sometimes be translated on the outside of, at the extremity of, the noun to which it refers; sometimes is used substantively, the outward part, extremity :-- Úteweard (dǽl) crepido, Wrt. Voc, i. 34, 27. Se munt is mycel úteweard the hill presents a large surface, Blickl. Homl. 207, 26. iiii míla fram ðæm múðan úteweardum four miles from the outside of the mouth, Chr. 893; Erl. 88, 32. Ðá geféngon hié ðara þreóra tú æt ðæm múðan úteweardum, 897; Erl. 95, 26. Hé sý onfangen on úteweardre endebyrdnesse in ultimo gradu recipiatur, R. Ben. 53, 11. Hé ðencð on ðam oferbrǽdelse his módes ... Ac on úteweardum his móde hé liéhð him selfum, Past. 9; Swt. 55, 18-24. Heó hafaþ langne wyrtruman and ðone úteweardne sweartne it has a long root, and that black on the outside, Lchdm. i. 304, 2. Ðú smítst his blód ofer útewerd Aarones swýðre eáre sanguinem ejus pones super extremum auriculae dextrae Aaron, Ex. 29, 20. Úteweard nosterle pinnulae, Wrt. Voc. i. 43, 22. Smyra ða eágan útewarde, Lchdm. i. 374, 10. ¶ with preps. forming prepositional or adverbial phrases :-- Ðes eard (England) nis swá mægenfæst hér on úteweardan ðære eorðan brádnysse, Homl. Skt. i. 13, 107. Gif munuc eáðhylde biþ, þeáh hine man wácne and unweorðne talige and an úteweardum forlǽte and tó úteweardum medemige si omni vilitate vel extremitate contentus sit monachus, R. Ben. 29, 4. [O. Frs. úta-werd.]

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ᚢᛏᛖ-ᚹᛠᚱᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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