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sac-full
/sakful /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Adjective
sac-full
; adj. I. contentious, quarrelsome :-- Hé biþ swíðe sacful and micele ungeþwǽrnesse and mænigfealde saca on ðære geférǽdenne wyrcþ scandala nutriunt et dissensiones in congregatione faciunt, R. Ben. 124, 8. Ne ǽnig man ne sý tó sacfull ne ealles tó geflitgeorn, Wulfst. 70, 19 : Lchdm. iii. 428, 34. Sacful wíf litigosa mulier, Kent. Gl. 690. Mid secfullan (rixosa) wífe, 790. [ȝif þe cristene mon bið sacful, O. E. Homl. i. 109, 1.] II. given to accusation (v. sacan, IV) :-- Ne beó ðú sacfull non eris criminator, Lev. 19, 16.
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. I. add :-- S(a)cful rixosa, An. Ox. 56, 88. Twelf unþeáwas syndon . . . gif se crístena bið sacfull (contentiosus), O. E. Hml. i. 299, 14: 301, 30. Gif se crístena mann bið sacfull, ne bið hé sóðlíce crísten. Nis nán man rihtlíce crísten bútan sé ðe Críste geefenlǽcð. Críst sylf nolde flítan, 31-33. Beóð þá sacfullan deófles bearn, 302, 5. I a. that excites dissension or strife: -- Leáse láreówas bringað sacfulle láre pseudodoctores introducent sectas, Chrd. 93, 2. II. in last line for Leo.
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