Or-mǽte

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

or-mǽte

Add: I. of material things :-- Þá æteówde án ormǽte heort, Hml. S. 30, 29. Ormǽte ent, 25, 280. Se ormǽta gigas, Ps. L. 32, 16. Cóm Timotheus mid ormǽtre fyrde, Hml. S. 25, 432. Hé (David) his (Goliath's) ormǽte heáfod of óslóh, 18, 26. II. of non-material things :-- Ormǽte inormis (facinus inorme, Ald. 139, 11), An. Ox. 18 b, 47. Ontend mid byrne þǽre ormǽtestan wælhreównesse ardore immanissimae crudelitatis exarsit, Gr. D. 162, 22. ¶ a case used adverbially :-- Eall þæt ígland mid mycelre swétnysse wunderlices stences ormǽdum wæs gefylled insulam illam diversorum aromatum odoriferis spiraminibus inflari cerneres, Guth. Gr. 167, 118. or-mæte