Hefig-tíme

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hefig-tíme

Add: I. heavy, weighed down :-- Hefitýme grauidum, Germ. 402, 53. II. weighty, of great importance, serious :-- Ðence se abbod hú mycele byrðene and hú hefigtýme hé underféncg mid ðám háde abba cogitet quale onus suscepit, R. Ben. 118, 19. III. grave (offence, &c.), severe, serious in its effects :-- Hú micel wíte is and hú hefigtýme þæt man on ámánsumunge sié quanta pena sit excommunicationis, R. Ben. 54, 1 : 48, 10. Hit byþ swíðe hefigtýme gylt grave delictum est, 138, 26. For swǽrum and hefigtýmum (heálicum, R. Ben. I. 78, 8) gylte pro gravi culpa, 70, 3. Þurh swíðe hefigtýmne hunger þe þisne eard swíðe gedrehte, Chr. 1096; P. 233, 4. Oft hit getímað þæt swýþe hefigtýme sacu and ungeþwǽrnessa (scandala gravia) on mynstre áspringað, R. Ben. 124, 3. Be hefigtýmum gyltum de gravioribus culpis, 49, 12, 14. IV. of persons, oppressive, annoying, troublesome :-- Hefigtýme hig wǽron mé molesti erant mihi. Ps. L. 54, 4. V. of things, hard to bear, grievous; in a weaker sense, tedious. (1) used attributively :-- Hé geðafað þæt ðá árleásan his hálgan ðearle geswencað mid hefigtýmre éhtnysse, Hml. Th. i. 574, 23. Án licgende mǽden on langsumre sáre ðurh hefigtýmum heáfodece (cf. per integrum annum intolerabili capitis dolore vexata, Vit. Cuth. c. 30), ii. 150, 5. (2) used predicatively, where the source of trouble is given, (a) by a noun (or pronoun) :-- Wearð his lif swiðe hefigtýme ðám gebróðrum, ac hí hit forbǽron for his bróðer gódnysse, Hml. Th. i. 534, 5. Þæt hit (þis godspel, 21) tó hefigtýme ne ðince þám heorcnigendum, ii. 72, 23. (b) by a clause or pronoun representing one :-- Þincð ús hefigtýme ꝥ wé him gehýrsumian, Hml. A. 6, 134. Him hefigtýme wæs ꝥ hí hine gesáwon, 75, 74. God gelácnað his gecorenra gyltas mid mislicum brocum ; and þeáh ðe hit hefigtýme sý ðám ðrowigendum, Hml. Th. i. 472, 19. (c) by a dat. infin. :-- Þuhte mé hefigíme þé tó tiþienne þæs, Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 1, 6. Hit is láð and hefitýme lǽwedum tolce tó gehiranne . . . hwæt on hálgum bócum áwriten is, Wlfst. 304, 15. ¶ of a period in which weather or other conditions are unfavourable :-- On þám tíman wæs swíðe hefigtíme wynter, and se mere wæs mid forste oferþeaht, Hml. S. 11, 142. Ðis wæs swíðe hefigtíme geár ǽgðer ge þurh mænigfealde gylda and eác þurh hefigtýmne hunger, Chr. 1096 ; P. 233, 3. Eall ꝥ geár wæs swíðe hefigtíme on manegum þingum and mislicum, ge on unwæderum, ge on eorðwæstmum, and mycel orfes wæs þæs geáres forfaren, 1041 ; P. 163, 11. VI. oppressive to the senses or faculties :-- Nis crístenum monnum nán ðing swá hefigtýme swá swá oferfyl. Be ðám se Hǽlend clypað, ' Warniað þæt eówere heortan ne sýn ofersýmede (grauentur) mid oferfylle, ' R. Ben. 63, 21.

Related words: hefe-tíme. hefig-time