Twifealdlīce

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - twifealdlīce

According to the Old English Dictionary:

twifealdlīce
ad (I) to twice the amount :-- On dam sixtan dæge hig gaderodon twyfealdlīce -in die sexta collegerunt cibos duplices, Ex. 16, 22: L. Alf. pol. 39; Th. i. 88, 4. Gē gedōþ hyne helle beam twyfealdlīcor donne eów (duplo quam vos), Mt. Kmbl. 23, 15. (2) in two ways :-- Ðis godspel mæg beón twyfealdlīce getrahtnod, ǣrest be Iudēiscum folce . . . , eft siddan be ǣlcum menu, Homl. Th. ii. 428, 5. Se biþ twyfealdlīce deád, se de on gōdnysse unwæstmbǣre biþ, and on yfelnysse wæstmbǣre, 406, 18. twifealdlice

Related words: Doubly,

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