Un-staþolfæst
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-staþolfæst
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- un-staþolfæst
- adj. I. unsettled, not remaining in one place, not stationary :-- Ða twám and þrím dagum geond missenlícra monna húsum wuniaþ, ǽfre unstaþolfæste (numquam stabiles) and woriende, R. Ben. 9, 23. II. unsettled, desirous of change :-- Sum munuc wearð unstaðolfæst on his mynstre, and gewilnode ðæt hé móste of ðam munuclífe, Homl. Th. ii. 176, 14. III. not steadfast, unstable, not enduring, easily moved :-- Unstaðolfest weorc opus instabile, Kent. Gl. 369. Hí nabbaþ wyrtruman on him ac beóð unstaðolfæste non habent radicem in se sed temporales sunt, Mk. Skt. 4, 17. Understaþolfæste (unstaþolfæste? cf. ðæt ungestæððige folc, Bt. 39, 3; Fox 216, 2) mobile vulgus, Met. 28, 69. IV. unsettled in mind, wavering :-- Ðone unstaðolfæstan bróðor and ðone tweónigendan fratrem fluctuantem, R. Ben. 51, 3. [þe twafalde mon is unstaþelfest (inconstans) on alle his weies, O. E. Homl. i. 151, 29. Unstaðeluest bileaue, A. R. 208, 16.] un-staþolfæst