For-slegenlic

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-slegenlic
adj. Shameful, ignominious :-- God hine (John the Baptist) forlét swá forslegenlicne (cf. (?) for-slegen profligatus. II. 2; or (?) l. for-segenlicne ( = -sewen-) one MS. has forsewenlíce) and swá orwyrðlicne deáð þrowian, Mart. H. 156, 20. for-slegenlic

Related words: for-sleán;

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