Swilce

According to the Old English Dictionary:

swilce

Add:, swálíce. I. add :-- Be þon swilce (swelce, swylce, ) Paulus cwǽð unde Paulas quoque dicit. Bd. 1. 27; Sch. 85, 11. II a. so, in a manner to be described :-- Gif eów swálíce þúhte, utan gangan on þissum carcerne and hine út forlǽtan, Bl. H. 247, 1. Swylce ic þus hyt gehradige, Angl. viii. 303, 27. III. add: as it were :-- Hé geseah swilce án ðeóstorful dene, Hml. Th. ii. 338, 4: Ors. 5, 14; S. 248, 9: Hml. S. 31, 937. III a. with relative force, swelc, swá ... swilce :-- Ðín nosu is swelc swelce se torr on Libano, Past. 64, 24. Hafa hine swá swilce ðín ágen lim, Hex. 46, 3. III b. with antecedent and relative combined (such, so) as :-- Hé wæs swelce Ró;máne þá wyrþe wǽron he was such as the Romans then deserved, Ors. 6, 3; S. 256, 24. Dó þú þá lǽcedómas swilce þú þá líchoman gesié, Lch. ii. 84, 15. IV. add :-- Swelce hé hine wandigende ofersuíðe quasi parcendo superare, Past. 297, 15: 296, 11. Næs þæt cild gecweden hire frumcennede cild swilce heó ó;ðer siððan ácende, Hml. Th. i. 34, 24. swilce

Related words: ll.