Wil-fægen

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wil-fægen

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wil-fægen
adj. Having ones desire, satisfied, glad :-- Wilfægen voti compos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 59 : compos, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 31 ; Zup. 58, 1. Wilfangen (l. -fægen) voti compos. Engl. Stud. xi. 67, 96. Ongan hē wilfægen æfter dam wuldres treó eordan delfan, dæt hē funde behelede, Elen. Kmbl. 1652; El. 828. On eallum dām mid dȳ hē willfægen wæs gefremed, hē eft hwearf tō godcundre lāre in quibus omnibus cum sui voti compos esset effectus, ad praedicandum rediit, Bd. 5, II; S. 625, 40, Mid eádigum wilfægene cum beatis compotes, Hymn. Surt. 36, 30. Crist ūs ēcum gefeánum dō beón wilfægene Christus nos sempiternis gaudiis faciat esse compotes, 123, II. [Cf. M. H. Ger. wille-vagunge satisfactio poenitentiae.]

Related words: wil-hrēmig, -hrēþig, -tygþe. wil-fægen

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