Ge-cwémlíce

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-cwémlíce
Add: (1) agreeably, so as to please, acceptably :-- Wel ðrowað se man and Gode gecwémlíce, sé ðe winð ongeán leahtras, Hml. Th. i. 164, 20: Hml. A. 14, 22. Þæt þe gé tó friðes bóte gecoren hæfdon mid micclum wísdóme and mé swýðe gecwémlíce. Ll. Th. i. 278, 3. Hú hé Gode gecwémlícost mihte lybban, Guth. 30, 15. (2) so as to satisfy, satisfactorily :-- Ús ꝥ gecwémelíce cýþað þǽre sóðfæstnesse word veritatis nobis verba satisfacerent, Gr. D. 315, 14. (3) suitably, conveniently, fitly :-- Þeós wíse nú hí sylfe gecwémlíce gegearwode occasio apta se praebuit, Gr. D. 60, 6. ge-cwemlice
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