Gelíce

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gelíce

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gelíce
ad pariter, Ps. Spl. 67, 7 : Mt. Bos. 27, 44. Gelíce swá swá heó bebeád likewise as she commanded, Bd. 4, 19; S. 588, 19 : Blickl. Hom. 17, 4. He dyde swá gelíce fecit similiter, Mt. Bos. 20, 5. Elpendes hýd wyle drincan wætan gelíce án spinge deþ an elephant's hide will imbibe water as a sponge doth, Ors. 5, 7; Bos. 107, 11. Ðǽm biscopum ðe hér on worlde syndon swýðe gelíce gegange ðæm biscope ðe Paulus geseah it shall happen to those bishops that are in this world as it did to the bishop that St. Paul saw, Blickl. Homl. 45, 4 : 59, 4. Nis ðæt nó be eallum démum gelíce to secgenne that is not to be said of all judges alike, 63, 16. Ne wǽron ðás ealle gelíce lange these were not all alike long, 119, 3. His líf ðæm his naman wæs gelíce gegearwod his life was ordered in accordance with his name, 167, 32. Gelíce sé lég hie cwylmde gelíce ða Cristenan him mid heora wǽpnum hýndon they were killed alike by the lightning and laid low by the weapons of the Christians, 203, 16 : Nar. 14, 10. Ðon gelícost ðe ðær sum mon gestóde just as if a man had stood there, Blickl. Homl. 203, 35. Emne ðon gelícost ðe he ne cúðe just as if he didn't know, Cd. 92; Th. 116, 28; Gen. 1943. Efne ðæm gelícost swylce just as if, Blickl. Homl. 221, 14. gelice

Related words: Likewise, also, as;

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