Wóp-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wóp-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 wóp-líc

adj. Mournful, doleful, lamentable :-- Wóplíc flebilis, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 28; Zup. 55, 4. (l) of persons expressing grief :-- Wóplíc [printed -lie) lacrimabundus, Hpt. Gl. 472, 66. In faran ðæt tungla wóplícan heofones eáhþerl dú eart geworden intrent ut astro flebiles, coeli fenestra facta es, Hymn. Surt. 76, 5. (2) of that which is an expression of grief :-- Hé spræc mid wóplícre stemne, Homl. Th. i. 402, 9 : Homl. Ass. 196, 29: 198, 121. Mid wðplícre ceorunge, Homl. Skt. i. 2, 355. Mid wóplícum murcnungum flebilibus questibus, Hpt. Gl. 518, 25. Mid wóplícum siccitungum lacrimosis singultibus, 504, 62. (3) of that which occasions grief :-- Se dæg is heora sóðe ácennednys; ná wóplíc, swá swá seó ǽrre, ac blissigendlíc tó ðam écum lífe. Homl. Th. i. 354, 10. [O. H. Ger. wuof-líh lugubris. ] wop-lic

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ᚹᚩᛈ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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