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tál

  • noun [ feminineneuter ]
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tál, e; f.: es; n. (?)
Wright's OE grammar
§119;
evil-speaking, calumny, slander, vituperation, detraction
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  • Tál

    denotatio, detractio,

    • Scint. 83, 6.

  • Tále

    suggilationis (viluperationis,

    • Hpt. Gl. 527, 3
      • ),
    • Anglia xiii. 37, 298.

  • Tále

    vituperationem,

    • Ps. Spl. 30, 16.

  • Þurh tále

    per detractionem,

    • Confess. Peccat.

  • Ne tále ne dóþ

    neque calumniam faciatis,

    • Lk. Skt. 3, 14,

  • Ðurh ðis beóþ áwecte saca and tála

    hinc suscitantur rixe, detractiones,

    • R. Ben. 124, 18,

  • Módignys ácenþ yfelsacunge, ceorunge, and gelómlíce tála,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 222, 8.
evil-speaking in reference to the Deity, blasphemy
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  • :-- Ǽlc synn and tál biþ forgifen mannum, ac ðæs Hálgan Gástes tál ne bið nǽfre forgifen

    omne peccatum et blasphemia remittetur hominibus, Spiritus autem blasphemia non remittetur

      (
    • Mt. 12, 31
      • ),
    • Homl. Th. i. 498, 22.

  • Se cwyð tál ongeán ðone Hálgan Gást, se ðe mid unbehreówsigendre heortan þurhwunaþ on mándǽdum,

    • 500, 15.

  • Nán man ne beó swá dyrstig, ðæt hé ǽnig word oððe ǽnig (ǽnige?) tál cweðe ongeán eówerum Gode,

    • ii. 20, 28.
scorn, mock, derision, reproach
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  • Tál and gebismerung

    subsannatio et illusio,

    • Ps. Lamb. 78, 4.

  • Þe læs ðe heó dó ðé on tále cuman feóndum ðínum

    ne faciat te in obprobrium venire inimicis tuis,

    • Scint. 177, 4.

  • Ðæt man God tó tále habbe

    that God be mocked,

    • Wulfst. 299, 14.

  • Ðás word ðe Sennacherib ásende tó hospe and tó tále ðé and ðínum folce

    (

    verba Sennacherib, qui misit ut exprobraret nobis Deum viventem,

    • 2 Kings 19, 16
      • ),
    • Homl. Th. i. 568, 19.

  • Tále

    ganniturae, cachinnatione,

    • Hpt. Gl. 441, 2.

  • Tále

    subsannationem,

    • Ps. Lamb. 43, 14.
blame, censure, reproof
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  • Ða bóceras ðæt tǽldon; ac heora tál næs ná of rihtwísnysse,

    • Homl. Th. i. 338, 20.

  • Adjectiva

    getácniaþ oððe herunge oððe tál

      (
    • tále, MS. V.: tǽl, MS. T.
      • ),
    • Ælfc. Gr. 5;
    • Zup. 12, 11.
Etymology
[Cf.
O. H. Ger. zála
periculum:
Icel. tál
allurement, device.]
Similar entries
v. tǽl, tǽlan.
Linked entries
v.  tǽl.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tál.” 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/30192.

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