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cúþ-líce

  • adverb
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cúþ-líce, cúþe-líce; comp. or; adv.
certainly, manifestly; certo, aperte
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  • Ic cúþlíce wát

    scio certissime,

    • Bd. 2, 12
    • ;
    • S. 513, 42: 4
    • , 19;
    • S. 589,
    • 25.
  • Ðæt his líf ðe cúþlícor ascíneþ cujus ut vita clarescat certius, 5, 1; S. 613, 14, note. Acyrred cúþlíce from Cristes ǽ

    turned manifestly from Christ's law,

    • Exon. 71b
    • ;
    • Th. 267, 6
    • ;
    • Jul. 411: Ps. Th. 103, 16: 106, 6: 121, 1: 146, 4: 149,
    • 8.
for, indeed, therefore; nempe, igitur
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  • Cweðaþ cúþlíce

    for indeed they said,

    • Ps. Th. 70, 10: 82, 4: Hy. 10,
    • 20;
    • Hy. Grn. ii. 293,
    • 20.
familiarly, courteously, kindly; familiariter, civiliter, comiter
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  • Ðæt he ðe cúþlícor from ðám hálgum ge-earnode in heofonum onfongen beón

    quo familiarius a sanctis recipi mereretur in cælis,

      Bd. 5, 7; S. 621, 12: Cd. 111; Th. 146, 32; Gen. 2431.
  • Ðæt he eáþmédum ellorfúsne oncnáwe cúþlíce

    that he should with affability kindly treat the ready to depart,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 643
    • ;
    • An. 322: Ps. Th. 118, 146, 154: 54, 16: 90,
    • 15.
Derived forms
for-cúþlíce, in-, un-
Linked entries
v.  cúþe-líce.
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  • cúþ-líce, adv.