For-liger

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-liger

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-ligr, -lír, es;

for-liger
m. A fornicator, adulterer; fornĭcātor, ădulter :-- Ðæt Abraham nǽre forliger [MS. -ligr] geteald ut Abraham non computātus ădulter esset, Boutr. Scrd. 22, 21. an adulteress. Forligr adulter, Wrt. Voc. 86, 68. He is forlír he is an adulterer, Homl. Th. ii. 208, 17. God fordémþ ða dyrnan forlíras God condemns secret adulterers, ii. 324, 7. for-liger

Related words: hor-cwén

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