Ge-metlíce
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-metlíce
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-metlíce
- Substitute: (1) in due measure or amount :-- Ðæt hé him tó tíde gemetlíce gedæle ðone hwǽte ut det illis in tempore tritici mensuram, Past. 459, 12. (l a) in time, early :-- Sí gedón [nón] gemet-lícor agatur nona temperius, R. Ben. 1. 81, 18. (2) in a fitting manner, meetly, suitably :-- Ðonne ðá láreówas ongietað ðæt hí gemetlíce and medomlíce (modis congruetitibus) lǽrað, Past. 461, 30. (3) moderately, in moderation, temperately, (a) of a person's action :-- Wrec ðé gemetlíce, Pro(nec aliud quidquam praeter necessarium victum), Solil. H. 35, 17. Gemetlícost, Met. 8, 16. (b) of the operation of things (disease, & c.) :-- Hé wæs lícumlicre untrym-nesse þrycced, hwæþere tó ðon gemetlíce (adeo moderate) ꝥ hé ealle þá tíd mihte ge sprecan ge gongan, Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 488, 14. (4) regularly, in due order. Cf. ge-metgian ; III :-- Nǽron nó swá gewislíce, ne swá endebyrdlíce, ne swá gemetlíce hiora stede and hiora ryne funden on hiora stówum and on hiora tídum non tam certus naturae ordo pro-cederel, nec tam dispositos motus, locis, temporibus explicaret, Bt. 35, 2 ; F. 158, 3. [O. H. Ger. ge-mezlíhho commode.] v. un-gemetlíce. ge-met-lice,ge-metlice