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