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cræftig

  • adjective
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Grammar
cræftig, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§431; §630;
Ingenious, skilful, CRAFTY, cunning, virtuous, powerful; ingeniosus, peritus, astutus, probus, potens
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  • Sum biþ fugelbona hafeces cræftig

    one is a fowler skilful with the hawk

    • Exon. 79 b
      • ;
    • Th. 298, 6
      • ;
    • Crä. 81: 97a
      • ;
    • Th. 361, 24
      • ;
    • Wal. 24
      • ;
    • Ps. C. 50, 11
      • ;
    • Ps. Grn. ii. 277, 11.

  • Án reordode, ðam wæs Iudas nama, wordes cræftig

    one spake, whose name was Judas, crafty in word

    • Elen. Kmbl. 837
      • ;
    • El. 419
      • ;
    • Exon. 97 b
      • ;
    • Th. 364, 18
      • ;
    • Wal. 72
      • ;
    • Beo. Th. 2936
      • ;
    • B. 1466.

  • He sende cræftige wyrhtan

    misit architectos

    • Bd. 5, 21
      • ;
    • S. 643, 7.

  • Móde ðæs cræftig

    with a mind so cunning

    • Exon. 79 b
      • ;
    • Th. 299, 6
      • ;
    • Crä. 98.

  • Céne and cræftig

    brave and virtuous

    • Bt. Met. Fox 10, 101
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    • Met. 10, 51
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    • Bt. 36, 6
      • ;
    • Fox 182, 10, 11.

  • Sume men bióþ cræftige

    some men are virtuous

    • 39, 10
      • ;
    • Fox 228, 7.

  • Yldo beóþ on eórþan ǽghwæs cræftig

    age is powerful over everything on earth

    • Salm. Kmbl. 584
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    • Sal. 291
      • ;
    • Beo. Th. 3929
      • ;
    • B. 1962
      • ;
    • Chr. 1066
      • ;
    • Th. 334, 1
      • ;
    • Edw. 5.

  • Weras wísfæste, wordes cræftige

    wise men, powerful of speech

    • Elen. Kmbl. 628, 630
      • ;
    • El. 314, 315.

  • Nán cræftigra is ðonne ðu

    no one is more skilful than thou

    • Bt. 33, 4
      • ;
    • Fox 128, 18.

  • Omérus wæs leóþa cræftgast

    Homer was most skilful in poems

    • Bt. Met. Fox 30, 4
      • ;
    • Met. 30, 2.

  • Elþeódge wíf hæfdon gegán ðone cræftgestan dǽl

    strange women had overcome the most powerful part

    • Ors. 1. 10
      • ;
    • Bos. 33, 41.
Derived forms
ǽ-cræftig, æl-, ár-, beadu-, bóc-, eácen-, hyge-, lagu-, leóþ-, leoðu-, má-, mód-, rím-, rún-, searo-, sundor-, un-, wíg-
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cræftig.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/6653.

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