Un-clǽne

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

un-clǽne

adj. I. in a physical sense, unclean, foul, filthy. I a. as applied to animals or things, unclean, not fit for food :-- Seó ǽ monig ðing bewereþ tó etanne swá swá unclǽne (inmunda), Bd. 1, 27; S. 494, 33. Hwæt gif hit unclǽne (immundi) beóþ fixas? Ic wyrpe ða unclǽnan út, and genime mé clǽne tó mete, Coll. Monast. Th. 23, 15. Ða óðre synd unclǽne (polluta), Lev. 11, 12. Be swýnum and be óðrum unclǽnum nýtenum de porcis et de aliis impuris animalibus, L. Ecg. C. 40, tit.; Th. ii. 130, 31. II. in a moral sense, unclean, impure :-- Unclǽne incestus vel impurus, Wrt. Voc. i. 50, 13: incestus, 51, 35: 72, 13. Se unclǽna (inmundus) gást, Mk. 1, 26. Woruldmonna seó unclǽne gecynd, Exou. Th. 63, 9; Cri. 1017. Besmitene mid ðem unclǽnan firenluste, Blickl. Homl. 25, 8. Wæs sum man unclǽne (inmundum) deófol hæbbende, Lk. Skt. 4, 33. Unclǽne ingeþoncas, Exon. Th. 80, 33; Cri. 1316. Unclǽnra inpudicarum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 14. un-clæne

Parole correlate: un-clǽnness, clǽne.