Hold

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

hold

adj. Add: I. of a superior to an inferior :-- Ic (Edgar) beó eów swȳde hold hlāford þā hwīle þe mē līf gelǣst, Ll. Th. i. 278, ii. Ic (Cnut) cȳde eów ꝥ ic wylle beón hold hlāford and unswīcende tō Godes gerihtum and tō rihtre woroldlage, Cht. E. 229, 21 : Chr. 1066; P. 200, 17. II. of inferior to superior :-- God is mīn gewita ic wæs dīnum fæder swā gehȳrsum swā ic fyrmest mihte and fullīce hold on mōde and on mægene and dē ǣfre on fullum hyldum hold and on fulre lufe, dæs mē is God gewita, C. D. iv. l. amicissimus), Bd. 2, 9; Sch. 147, 6. His gesīþ þe hē him ǣr þone holdestan gelȳfde, 3, 14; Sch. 255, 7. III. in a religious sense, devout :-- Þǣre holdan mǣgsibbe deuotae germanitatis, An. Ox. 9, l. Eálā hwilc heófung holdra geleáffulra (boldra and geleáffulra, Hml. Th. ii. 518, 14), Hml. S. 31, 1382. IV. in a general sense, friendly, well-disposed :-- Boetius. . . wæs on Greācas hold was friendly towards the Greeks, Met. l, 56. Micel heáp holdra freónda ūre andbidad þǣr (in heaven), Hml. Th. ii. 526, 31. Þā þeóde symble Angelcynne þā holdestan gentem nationi Anglorum semper amicissimam, Bd. 4, 26; Sch. 504, 15. V. of things, pleasant :-- Heriad hine on hleódre holdre bēman, Ps. Th. 150, 3. Mid þȳ sēlestan hwǣtecynnes holde lynde adipe frumenti, 147, 3. Hī holdne begeáton, fǣlne fultum, 113, 18. v. dryhten-, hlāford-, in-, þeóden-hold. hold

Parole correlate: 300, 35-301, 2. Urias slæge his āgenes holdes degnes, Past. 35, 23. Fela sceal tō holdan hāmes gerēfan, Angl. ix. 265, 10. Lilla dæs cyninges þegn him se holdesta (heoldesta,