Fýlþ

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fýlþ

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fýlþ
Add: (1) physical:--Fýlþ putor, i. fetor, An. Ox. 3323: putredo, Scint. 38, 19. Of fýlþum and of fenne sordibus ac luto, Germ. 388, 12. Horslice fýlþu putidos (ergastuli) squaloris, An. Ox. 1790. (2) figurative, moral impurity, foul practice:--Seó fúle fornicatio, seó hátte fýlðe on Englisc, Wlfst. 249, 8. Fýlþe (ab omni spurcitiae) sentina, An. Ox. 666. Tó wiþersacunge fýlþe ad apostasiae volutabrum, 3041. Þás fúlan wuhta þú sceoldest áwurpan of ðínum ríce, ðý lǽs þe hí mid heora fýlðe ús ealle besmíton, Hml. Th. ii. 488, 13. Ic ætwand þæs deófles fýlðe, Hml. S. 7, 229: 23, 174. Ðá fýlðe ádón of þám Godes temple þe Antiochus þǽr árǽran hét on hǽðene wísan, 25, 378. Wið forliger and wið ǽghwilce fýlðe, Wlfst. 115, 10. Maþelunge fýlþe garrulitatis incestum, An. Ox. 2948. Fýlþa spurcalia, 2060. Hé geclǽnsod hæfde Godes templ fram eallum þám fýlðum þe hé þǽr árǽrde, Hml. S. 25, 538. [O. L. Ger. fúlitha putredo: O. H. Ger. fúlida putredo, putor, spurcitia.] fylþ
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