Ege-full
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ege-full
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ege-full
- Add: I. fearful, inspiring fear, terrible, (1) of persons:--Egeful hláford metuendus dominus, R. Ben. 2, 2. Cóm rídende sum egefull ridda, Hml. S. 25, 773. Swá egefull wæs Alexander þá þá héwæs on eásteweardum þissum middangearde ꝥte þá from him ondrédan þe wǽron on westeweardum tantus timor in summo Oriente constituti ducis populos ultimi Occidentis invaserat, Ors. 3, 9; S. 136, 6. Alexander se egefulla cyning, Hml. S. 25, 1. Hí geseóð egefulne þone ðehí eádmódne forhygedon, Hml. Th. i. 300, 19. (2) of things, terrible, tremendous:--Beó him swíðe egefull ðæt éce wíte aeterna supplicia perhorrescant, Past. 263, 16. Seó sǽ is hwílon swíðe hreóh and egeful on tó beónne, Hml. Th. i. 182, 33. Tó þám egefullan Godes dóme tremendo judicio Dei, R. Ben. 31, 10. Þone egefullan cwide terribilem sententiam, 49, 19. II. fearful, timorous. (1) feeling fear, cf. ege-leás:--Egefulle tremebundos, Hpt. Gl. 475, 4. (2) expressing fear:--Mid eargum, egefullum gebǽrum formidilosis, i. stupefactis gestibus, Hpt. Gl. 518, 58. ege-full