Med-micel

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

med-micel

I. add: [The Latin to Guthl. 5 is: Adsumta hordeacei panis particula; the diminutive particula seems to show that medmicel refers to quantity, not to quality, which beren hláf suggests, cf. Bd. 5, 12, infra.] III. add: with reference to quality, degree, &c. (1) of persons or personal attributes :-- Ðá metmiclo pussillanimes, Rtl. 11, 39. Þonne ꝥ moód wile ymb his ágene þæncan, búton tweón hit gehweorfeþ þý medmáre tó his sylfes þearfe cum animus interiora appetit, ad haec proculdubio minor redit, Gr. D. 5, 7. Þonne ꝥ mód byð tódǽled tó manegum wísum, hit byð þý medmáre (lǽsse, ) tó hwylcum synderlicum þingum cum animus dividitur ad multa, fit minor ad singula, 41, 14. Suá long gié ne dédon ánum ðassa metdmaasta ( de minoribus his), Mt. L. 25, 45, margin. (2) of things :-- Hé þǽre ýtemestan yldo his lífes on ancorsetle mid medmiclum hláfe (coarse bread; pane cibario) and cealde wætere áwreþede, Bd. 5, 12 ; Sch. 630, 18. med-micel

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