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un-cystig

  • adjective
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un-cystig, adj.
Niggardly, parsimonious, not liberal
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  • Uncystig

    frugus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 109, 18: 36, 5:

    frugi vel parcus,

    • i. 47, 37:

    parcus,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 28, 7
    • ;
    • Zup. 180, 13.
  • Uncystig oððe spærhynde

    frugi,

    • 9, 78
    • ;
    • Zup. 74, 12.
  • Fæsthafol oððe uncystig

    tenax,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 76, 5.
  • Ne sǽde ðæt hálige godspel (Lk. c. 16) ðæt se ríca reáfere wǽre, ac wæs uncystig and módegode on his welum,

    • Homl. Th. i. 328, 19.
  • 'Gé noldon him on mínum naman tíðian' ... Ðonne faraþ ða uncystigan intó écere cwicsúsle,
    • ii. 108, 30: Wulfst. 289, 8.
  • Ða uncystgan hé cysta lǽre, swá hé ða cystgan on merringe ne gebringe; ond swá eft ða rúmmódan fæsthafolnesse lǽren, swá hí ða uncystegan on yfelre hneáwnesse ne gebrengen

    sic tenacibus infundatur tribuendi largitas, ut tamen prodigis effusionis frena minime laxentur; sic prodigis praedicetur parcitas, ut tamen tenacibus periturarum rerum custodia non augeatur,

    • Past. 60
    • ;
    • Swt. 453, 27-29.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. un-kustig rudis, impurus, dolosus, improbus.
]
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v.  un-cyst.
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