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stranglíce

  • adjective
  • adverb
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stranglíce, adj.
Strongly
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  • Stranglíce

    roborabiliter,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 3.

  • Stranglíce fortiter, stranglícor fortius, stranglícost

    fortissime,

      Ælfc. Gr. 38; Zup. 230, 15.
with power, with energy, strenuously, vigorously
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  • Hé stranglíce ríxode and bewerode ðæt folc wið ða hǽðenan leóda,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 7.

  • Hé galdorcræftum wiðstód stranglíce, Andr. Kmbl. 333; An. 167: Exon.

    Th.

      156, 15; Gú. 875.

  • Hwæt getácnaþ ða ban búton stronglíce geworht weorc

    quid per ossa nisi fortia acta signantur ?

      Past. 34, 6; Swt. 235, 16.
with violence, fiercely, vehemently
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  • He byrnende from gebede swíceþ, stepeþ stronglíce. Exon. Th. 264,

      34; Jul. 374.

  • Se here ða burh besǽton and hire stranglíce wið feaht,

      Chr. 1016; Erl. 156, 15.

  • Hire mǽtte ðæt heó hæfde sweord on handa and ðæt heó stranglíce fuhte mid ðý,

      Shrn. 60, 30.

  • Ðæt se wind swá stronglíce hrure on ða circan, ðæt ðǽr ne mihte nǽnig mon gestandan oððe gesittan,

      81, 22.
boldly, bravely, hardily
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  • Hí heora land stronglíce geeodan and freódóm onféngon. Bd. 3, 24;

    S.

      557, 46.

  • Him gesewen wæs ðæt hé heardlíce and stranglíce sprǽce,

      5, 13; S. 632, 25.
firmly, in a manner to resist force
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  • Hé biþ stranglíce wið ða getrymed,

      Past. 21; Swt. 165, 7.

  • Tó ðon ðæt hé swá micle stranglícor árise swá hé hefiglícor áfeóll

    tanto post solidius surgeret quanto prius cecidisset,

      58, 5 ; Swt. 443, 32.
severely, sternly
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  • On ðám is stronglíce tó ehtanne ða ðe him ne ondrǽdaþ wítende syngian

    in his fortiter insequenda, qui non metuunt sciendo peccare,

      Bd. 1, 27; S. 491, 37.
  • Se man wæs stranglíce gewítnad. Shrn. 73, 12.

  • Se ðe swá stronglíce ða Iudéas þreáde,

      Blickl. Homl. 169, 7.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “stranglíce.” 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/29112.

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