Mǽþ-líc
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - mǽþ-líc
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- mǽþ-líc
- adj. Moderate, in accordance with due measure, proper to a person's degree, having regard to others (let the heriots be as is proper to the several degrees (earl's, king's thane, &c.), L. C. S. 72; Th. i. 414, 4. Gif hwilc forwyrht man hiówan gesǽce, bió se þingad swá hit médlíc sió be ðæs geltes méðe if any criminal betake himself to the convent, let terms be made for him, as may be fit and proper according to the measure of the crime, Chart. Th. 509, 23. v. mǽþ, un-mǽþlíc. mæþ-lic