Bismor-líce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bismor-líce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: bysmor-líce, bysmer-líce; Related words:

Definitions

1 bismor-líce

adv. [bismer, bismor disgrace, -líce] Disgracefully, indecently, irreverently, contemptuously, reproachfully; probrose, indecore, inverecunde, contumeliose :-- Bysmerlíce disgracefully, Judth. 10; Thw. 23, 2; Jud. 100. Hí willaþ, binnan Godes húse, bysmorlíce plegian they will play irreverently within God's house, L. Ælf. C. 35; Th. ii. 356, note 2, line 20. Worpaþ hine deófol on dómdæge bismorlíce the devil shall cast him down contemptuously in the day of judgment, Salm. Kmbl. 53; Sal. 27. bismor-lice

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁᛋᛗᚩᚱ-ᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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