Eald-lic

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

eald-lic

Add: I. proper for mature years, of the character that should belong to age :-- Cildlic on geárum and ealdlic on móde. Hml. S. 7, 9. Sé of þǽre tíde his cnihthádes wæs berende ealdlice heortan (cor gerens senile), Gr. D. 95, 1. Biscopum gebirað ealdlice wísan, Ll. Th. ii. 318, 29. II. belonging to early times, original, authentic (?) :-- Mid ealdlecre (printed -letre, but for -lec = -lic on same page) autentica veterum (the passage glossed is: Authentica veterum auctoritate, Ald. 35, 26. Cf. An. Ox. 2597 which has: authentica .i. auctoritate plena mid heálicum; so perhaps ealdlic should be rendered authoritative. Cf. eald, VIII), Wrt. Voc. ii. 2, 57. [Cf. Oxe aldelike lateþþ behaves with gravity, Orm. 1229. Full aldeliȝ to fraȝȝnenn with all proper seriousness to ask, 2553.] eald-lic

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