Fremfull

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fremfull

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fremfull
Add :-- Fremful beneficus, benefactor, Wrt. Voc. ii. 125, 31. Fremfulra utilium, An. Ox. 56, 310. (1) of persons, beneficent, benignant :-- Drihten wiste hú fremful hé beón wolde, Lch. iii. 436, 21. Hí syndon fremfulle (benigni) menn, Nar. 38, 22. (2) of things, useful, beneficial, advantageous :-- Ðysse wyrte wós ys swýðe fremful, Lch. i. 152, 15. Se drænc is frymful tó begánne, iii. 60, 2. Wé foresceáwiað and fremful taliað tó gehealdsumnesse gemǽnre sibbe þæt mynstres fadung on ðæs abbodes dóme stande nos previdimus expedire propter pacis custodiam in abbatis pendere arbitrio ordinationem monasterii, R. Ben. 125, 5. Mid mycelum and fremfullun. (subtili) gesceádes tódále, Angl. xiii. 369, 52. God cwæð be synfullum mannum twá word swíde fremfulle, Hml. Th. ii. 602, 7: Hml. S. 12, 146. [N.E.D. fremeful.] v. un-fremful; fremfulnes. fremfull
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