Wíd-mǽre
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wíd-mǽre
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- wíd-mǽre
- adj. Far-famed, famous, celebrated; in a bad sense, notorious. (1) of persons :-- Sume teohhiaþ ðæt ðæt betst sý, ðæt mon seó foremǽre and wídmǽre quibus optimum quiddam claritas videtur, Bt. 24, 2 ; Fox 82, 10. Wídmǽre wer . . . hé moncynnes mǽste hæfde mægen and strengo, Cd. Th. 98, 14; Gen. 1630. Wídmǽre cynn, 158, 16 ; Gen. 2618. (2) of things :-- Án wundorlíc tácn gelamp, swá wídmǽre ðæt feáwa wǽron on ðære neáwiste ðe ðæt ne gesáwe, oððe ne gehýrde, Homl. Th. ii. 28, 35. Hú Caudenes Furculus sió stów wearþ swíþe wídmǽre for Rómána bismere, Ors. 3, 8, tit.; Swt. 3, 10. Wídmǽre gewin (the war of the apostate angels), Exon. Th. 317, 1; Mód. 59. Wídmǽre blǽst (the fire that shall consume the world), 60, 27; Cri. 976. Swá gé sweotolran and wídmǽrran gedóð eówre tǽlweorðlícnesse tanto foedior vestra reprehensibilitas appareat, Past. 8 ; Swt. 53, 15. Hafaþ se cantic wídmǽrost word, Salm. Kmbl. 101; Sal. 50. [O. H. Ger. wít-mári insignis.] wid-mære