Tǽlende

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tǽlende

According to the Old English Dictionary:

tǽlende
adj. (ptcpl.) I. prone to blame, censorious :-- Ne beó hé tó tǽlende, L. E. I. 21; Th. ii. 416, 17: Exon. Th. 305, 18; Fä. 90. Cf. Uton beorgan ús wið tǽlnysse and wið twysprǽcnysse caveamus nobis a vituperatione et a biloquio, L. Ecg. P. iII. slanderous, backbiting :-- Ða aefstigan men and ða tǽlendan, Blickl. Homl. 65, 10. tælende

Related words: 66; Th. ii. 226, 31.

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