adj. Sorrowful, causing sorrow, grievous, sorry, miserable:--Hit is eatmlíc and sorhlíc mannum tó gehýranne, eall ðæt man ús foresægþ, Wulfst. 241, 21. Ðonne biþ sorhlíc sár and earmlíc gedál líces and sáwle, 187, 14. Ðonne wyrð ehtnes grimlíc and sorhlíc there shall be persecution cruel and grievous, 89, 16. Stingaþ hine mid sorhlícum sáre on his heortan, 141, 9. Setl his ðú gesettest sorglíc on eorðan sedem ejus in terra collisisti, Ps. Th. 88, 37. [O. H. Ger. sorg-líh: Icel. sorg-ligr.]