Un-gerisenlíce

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-gerisenlíce

According to the Old English Dictionary:

un-gerisenlíce
ad or unbecoming manner, with indignity, dishonourably, basely :-- Ungerisenlíce inconvenienter, Wrt. Voc. ii. 43, 64. Hé sceal tilian ðæt hé ne sié tó ungerisenlíce underþeód his unþeáwum, Bt. 29, 3; Fox 106, 19. For ðæte gewilnunga woroldgielpes hé onlýtt ungerisenlíce tó ðissum eorðlícum, suá ðæt neát for gífernesse onlýt tó ðære eorðan, Past. 21; Swt. 157, 2. Dauid, ðá hé ðone læppan forcorfenne hæfde, suíðe suíðlíce hreówsade ðæt hé him (Saul) ǽfre suá ungeriesenlíce (-risen-, Cott. MSS.) geðénigan, sceolde, 28; Swt. 199, 18. Hé bepǽhte hí intó his búre, and hí man ðǽrinne ofslóh ungerisenlíce (they were basely slain), Chr. 1015; Erl. 152, 1. un-gerisenlice

Related words: In an unsuitable, unseemly

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