Wilddeór-līc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wilddeór-līc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wilddeór-līc
adj. Wild beast-like, brutish, brutal, bestial :-- Se wīsdōm is eordlīc and wildeórlīc (-diór-, Hatt. MS.) est isla sapientia ter-rena, animalis, Past. 46; Swt. 346. 25. Seó wildeórlīce ārleásnes Brettacyninges feralis impietas regis Brittonum, Bd. 3, 9; S. 533, 7. Ða wildeórlīcan ferinam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 10. Hié be sumum dǽle wildiór-līce (bestiales) biód, Past. 17 ; Swt. 108, 23.

Related words: wilder-lic. wilddeor-lic

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