Þearflíce

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - þearflíce

According to the Old English Dictionary:

þearflíce
ad :-- Wé mihton ðás hálgan rǽdinge menigfealdlícor trahtnian, ac ús twýnaþ hwæðer gé magon máran deópnysse ðǽron þearflíce tócnáwan whether you can with profit know the profounder parts of the subject, Homl. Th. i. 556, 15. Angan listum ymbe þencean þearflíce hú hé þider meahte Crécas oncerran, Met. 1, 60. [Icel. þarfliga usefully.] þearflice

Related words: Usefully, profitably, with profit, to good purpose

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