Heá-lic

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heá-lic

Add: I. local. (1) reaching to a great height, lofty, tall :-- Heofon is wundorlíce heálic and wíd on ymbhwyrfte; sé gǽð under ðás eorðan ealswá deóp swá bufan, Hex. 10, 1. Man áhéng hí onheálicum gealgan, Hml. A. 95, 119. Heálicum sǽnesse edito (alto) promontorio, An. Ox. 576. Heálicne píntreówes bóh procerum pini stipitem (cf. ǽnne heáhne pínbeám. Hml. Th. ii. 508, 24), 2221. Heálicum boga bígelsum celsis arcuum fornicibus, 510. Mid heálicum cederbeámum, Hex. 12, 4. (2 ) situated at a great height, high up :-- Heálic sittende mǽden sublimis residens virgo, Hy. S. 108, 7. On heálicere héhnysse in alto (tribunalis) culmine, An. Ox. 3454. Hé gewát tó ðan Hǽlende þe hé on heofenan heálicne standende geseah (cf. Video filium hominis stantem a dextris Dei, Acts 7, 56), Hml. Th. i. 48, 7. Heálice heofona heáhnyssa ástígan summa polorum culmina scandere, Hy. S. 88, 7. II. of persons. (l) of high rank, position or dignity :-- Gedsæf on gehwǽdum forbúge heálic beón gehæfd contentus modicis uitet sublimis haberi, Wülck. Gl. 257, 33. Heálic atrox (quasi atrox regina imperium usurpans, Ald. 10, 29), Hpt. Gl. 422, 21. Ðe is leófre on ðisum wácum scræfum ðonne ðú on healle heálic biscop sitte, Hml. Th. ii. 146, 28. Uton wé þus heálices and ðus foremǽres mundboran láre folgian, Bl. H. 169, 17. Stefn heálices fæderes vox excelsi Patris, Hy. S. 49, 7. Hí ðone Hǽlend wurðodon and nǽnne óðerne swá heálicne ne tealdon, Hml. S. 11, 97. Ðá yfelan (Venus) wurðiað þá hǽðenan for heálice fǽmnan, Wlfst. 107, 17. (2) of noble qualities :-- Geearnungum heálic meritis celsus, Hy. S. 104, 15. III. of material things, (l) of superior kind, of high class or degree :-- Gif hé gesóhte heálicne heáfodstede, Ll. Th. i. 330, 15. (2) of excellent quality, precious (stone) :-- For heálicum gymstánum, Hml. S. 20, 60. Se heofon is betera and heálicra and fægerra ðonne eall his innung. Bt. 32, 2; F. 116, 10. IV. of non-material things, (l) reaching a high degree, (a) of the voice, elevated, raised, loud (IIIa. ) :-- Þá hǽþenan clypodon mid heálicre stemne, Hml. S. 31, 1031. (b) high in respect to worth, dignity, etc. :-- Heálic héþ edita (pudi-citiae) proceritas, An. Ox. 1698. Heálic wyrþment, synderlic gifu prerogatiua, UNCERTAIN i. excellentia, 2572. On heálicere héhnysse l geþinþe edito (i. alto) fastigio, 929: precelso, UNCERTAIN 4407. Sum heálic gód quandam claritudinem, Bt. 24, 3; F. 82, 23. Þú forsihst ðone heálican wurðmynt (gloriam mundi), Hml. Th. ii. 146, 27. Abel hæfde þreó heálice mihta (tria maxima justitiae praeconia), Angl. vii. 8, 78. (c) of feeling, condition, profound, intense, extreme :-- Sý heálic swige æt þǽm gereorde summum fiat silentium ad mensam, R. Ben. 62, 13. Heálicra mildheortnysse summe clementiae, Hy. S. 29, 7. Mid heálicum geþylde, Hml. A. 21, 176. Mid heálicere gecneordnisse, Ælfc. T. Grn. 16, 46. Hié hæfdon miccle lufan and eác heálico ondrysnu, Bl. H. 205, 8. (d) as an epithet of what is evil, deep guilt, grievous sin, profound error :-- Nis nán leahter swá heálic ꝥ man ne mæg gebétan, Hml. S. 12, 157. On þám heálicon gedwylde þæt hí swá fúle [men] him tó godum gecuran, Wlfst. 107, 24. On ðæt heálice gedwyld, Sal. K. p. 123, 106. Hí þǽr heálicne on hryre gefremedan multiplicata est in eis ruina, Ps. Th. 105, 23. Wið eallum þǽm heálicum synnum, Bl. N. 7. Þurh heálice misdǽda, Ll. UNCERTAIN Th. i. 404, 1. (2) of a high degree of excellence, noble, excellent :-- Heálic lár praecipuum documentum, Hpt. Gl. 455, 27 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 19. Þæt is heálic dæg, béntíd brému, Men. 74: 37. Þæt is heálic rǽd monna gehwylcum, Cri. 430. Mid heálicum ealdordóme authentica auctoritate. An. Ox. 2597. Mid heálicere superna (potestate), 3531. Heálicre gife charismate, Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 25. Heálice synde[r]gife felix priuilegium, An. Ox. 2588. Heálicum eximia, nobilia, insignia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 5. Þá heálican gewyrhto Sce UNCERTAIN Ióhannes, Bl. H. 167, 5. [v. N. E. D. highly. O. H. Ger. hóh-lih sublimis: Icel. há-ligr.] hea-lic,healic

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