Underling

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - underling

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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underling
m. (the word seems to occur only in late texts) An underling, a subordinate, a subject :-- Heó (the Jews) syððen ǽfre unwurðe wǽron on heora lífdagen and get synden underlinges, Homl. Ass. 194, 50. Eádward kyng grét Harald eurl and alle his undurlynges (omnes meos ministros) in Herefordeshíre, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i

Related words: 218, 14. [Leir king scal beon eouwer lauerd ... & Aganippus ure king scal beon his underling, Laym. 3657. Inobedience, þet is ... underling þet ne buhð nout his prelat, A. R. 198, 18.] underling

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