Grundlinga
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - grundlinga
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- grundlinga
- Add: I. where a building is razed to the ground, is destroyed to its foundations :-- Ðá sǽde hé þæt his (of the temple) sceolde weorðan ǽghwylc stán grundlinga tóworpen dico uobis, non relinquetur hic lapis super lapidem, qui non destruatur, Wlfst. 88, 20. Seó burh wearð tóworpen grundlunga, swá swá se Hǽlend sǽde, Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 18: Hml. Th. i. 404, 12: Hml. A. 102, 11. Wearð swá micel storm ꝥ eall ꝥ ormǽte weorc wearð tówend grundlunga, Hml. S. 31, 1244. Ꝥ tempel grundlunga tófeóll, 2, 387. Áhreás þæt tempel grundlunga, Hml. Th. i. 72, 5. I a. fig. :-- Þǽre ǽrran gerecednyssa dimhoua grundlunga (funditus) fordwinan, An. Ox. 1678. II. of complete destruction or removal of other objects. (1) material :-- Ealle ðá godas grundlunga suncon intó þǽre eorðan, Hml. S. 14, 143. (2) non-material :-- Bið ǽghwilc syn grundlinga (cf. eallinga funditus, Sch. 77, 13) ádwǽsced omnis culpa funditus exstinguitur, Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 78, 3. Synna grundlunga (cf. mid ealle, R. Ben. 13, 18) of ádón peccata radicitus amputare, R. Ben. I. 15, 6.