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gelíce

  • adverb
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gelíce, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§553;
Likewise, also, as; pariter,
  • Ps. Spl. 67, 7
    • :
  • Mt. Bos. 27, 44
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  • Gelíce swá swá heó bebeád

    likewise as she commanded,

    • Bd. 4, 19; S. 588, 19
      • :
    • Blickl. Hom. 17, 4
      • .

  • He dyde swá gelíce

    fecit similiter,

    • Mt. Bos. 20, 5
      • .

  • Elpendes hýd wyle drincan wætan gelíce án spinge deþ

    an elephant's hide will imbibe water as a sponge doth,

    • Ors. 5, 7; Bos. 107, 11
      • .

  • Ðǽm biscopum ðe hér on worlde syndon swýðe gelíce gegange ðæm biscope ðe Paulus geseah

    it shall happen to those bishops that are in this world as it did to the bishop that St. Paul saw,

    • Blickl. Homl. 45, 4 : 59, 4
      • .

  • Nis ðæt nó be eallum démum gelíce to secgenne

    that is not to be said of all judges alike,

    • 63, 16
      • .

  • Ne wǽron ðás ealle gelíce lange

    these were not all alike long,

    • 119, 3
      • .

  • His líf ðæm his naman wæs gelíce gegearwod

    his life was ordered in accordance with his name,

    • 167, 32
      • .

  • Gelíce sé lég hie cwylmde gelíce ða Cristenan him mid heora wǽpnum hýndon

    they were killed alike by the lightning and laid low by the weapons of the Christians,

    • 203, 16
      • :
    • Nar. 14, 10
      • .

  • Ðon gelícost ðe ðær sum mon gestóde

    just as if a man had stood there,

    • Blickl. Homl. 203, 35
      • .

  • Emne ðon gelícost ðe he ne cúðe

    just as if he didn't know,

    • Cd. 92; Th. 116, 28
      • ;
    • Gen. 1943
      • .

  • Efne ðæm gelícost swylce

    just as if,

    • Blickl. Homl. 221, 14
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gelíce.” 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/14987.

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