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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gefóglíc

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1 un-gefóglíc

adj. Immense, enormous, (1) in a physical sense :-- Ungefóhlíc hreám immensus clamor, Greg. Dial. 1, 9. Ymbútan ðone weall is se mǽsta díc, on ðam is iernende se ungefóglecesta streám fossa extrinsecus late patens vice amnis circumfluit, Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 74, 18. (2) in a moral sense :-- Is swíðe micel þearf ðæt gé georne mǽnra áða stýran, and eówrum hýremonnum cýðon, hú ungefóhlícu scyld ðæt is, L. E. I. 26; Th. ii. 422, 20. un-gefoglic
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛖᚠᚩᚷᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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