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Old English Dictionary Entry

Yfel-líc

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1 yfel-líc

adj. Bad, foul, rotten. II :-- Ðysse worulde wela is gebrosnadlíc and yfellíc and forwordenlíc, Wulfst. 263, 13. Twégen león ádulfan his byrgenne on ðæs wéstenes sande; ðǽr resteþ Paules líchoma mid yfelíce duste bewrigen, ac on dómes dæge hé áríseþ on wuldor, Shrn. 50, 18. Seó byrgen is bewrigen mid dimmum stánum and yfellícum, 66, 25. yfel-lic
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ᚣᚠᛖᛚ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
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