Un-þeáwfæst

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

un-þeáwfæst
adj. Of bad habits, vicious, ill-mannered, ill-conditioned :-- Hit is bysmorlíc dǽd, ðæt ǽnig man ǽfre swá unþeáwfæst beón sceole, ðæt hé ðone múð ufan mid mettum áfylle, and on óðerne ende him gauge ðæt meox út, Engl. Stud. viii. 62, 15. Onþeáwfæste indisciplinatorum, Hpt. Gl. 526, 75. Hwam becumaþ wunda oððe eágena blindnyss búton ðám unðeáwfæstum ðe wódlíce drincaþ, and heora gewitt ámyrraþ? Homl. Ass. 6, 144.

Related words: un-geþeáwfæst. un-þeawfæst

Back