Ge-clifian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-clifian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-clifian
Take here ge-cleofian in Dict., and add: (1) to stick to (tó or dat.) :-- Gecleofige tunge mín gómum mínum adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, Ps. L. 136, 6. Ðeós wyrt wyle hrædlíce tó ðám men geclyfian. Lch. i. 306, 4. Mín tunge ys gecleofod (adhaesit) tó mínum gómum, Ps. Th. 21, 13. (1 a) to stick together :-- Hió gedéþ ꝥ flǽsc tógædere geclifað, Lch. i. 134, 13. Hý tógædere geclifigen (-clifian, ), 316, 1. (2) to stick on :-- Geclyfode on eorðan innoð úre adhesit in terra uenter noster, Ps. Rdr. 43, 25. ꝥ þǽr nǽre nán þing on þǽre stówe þe se stántorr on geclyfian mihte (quo inhaerere potuisset), Gr. D. 12, 19. ge-clifian

Related words: l.

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