Sceád-wís

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sceád-wís

According to the Old English Dictionary:

sceád-wís
adj. Intelligent, discerning, discriminating :-- Be gesceádwísan geréfan. Se scádwís geréfa sceal ǽgðer witan ge hláfordes landriht ge folces gerihtu, Angl. ix. 259, 3. Mid hú sceádwísre lufe manncynna ealdor for úre edstaðelunge þǽre róde gealgan underféng, Hml. Th. i. 588, 88.

Related words: ge-sceádwís. scead-wis

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