Ælmes-lic

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ælmes-lic

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ælmes-lic
adj. I. of the nature of alms, eleemosynary, charitable:--Hié hígon gefeormien and hígon ús mid heora godcundum gódum swǽ gemynen swǽ ús árlic and him ælmeslic siǽ, Cht. Th. 476, 34. Swé hit him rehtlicast and elmestlicast wére, 465, 24. II. depending upon alms, poor:--Ælmysli[cum] paupertino, An. Ox. 56, 302. ælmes-lic
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