Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

up-lendisc

  • adjective
Dictionary links
Grammar
up-lendisc, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§590;
Uplandish, country (as opposed to town), rural, rustic
Show examples

  • Uplendisc forensis (forensis

    qui foras est,

    Migne),
      Germ. 389, 41.

  • Eft begann sum uplendisc mann egeslíce hrýman tó ðám árleásum burhwarum ... Ðá arn se ceorl geond ealle ða strǽt hrýmende,

      Homl. Th. ii. 302, 4-8.
  • Wé wyllaþ ðisne circul ámearkian, ðæt se uplendiscea preóst (cf. Chaucer's: Poure persoun dwellyng uppon land) wite his naman; mæg beón ðe glædre his heorte ðe hé sum þing hérof undergyte, Anglia viii. 317, 38.

  • Ic wéne, lá, uplendisca preóst, ðæt ðú nyte hwæt beó atomos,

      318, 14.

  • Ðú byst uppan lande mid wímmannum oftor ðonne ic beó ... Ic hit gehýrde secgan, ðæt ðás uplendiscan wíf wyllaþ oft drincan,

      Engl. Stud. viii. 62, 12.
  • Wé witon ðæt ðás þing þincaþ clericum and uplendiscum preóstum genóh mænigfealde, Anglia viii. 321, 25.
Etymology
[Oplondysch men wol lykne hamsylf to gentilmen ... The Saxon tonge ys abide scarslych wiþ feaw uplondysch men, Trev. i. c. 59. Uplondysche mann villanus, Prompt. Parv. 512, where see note.]
Linked entries
v.  uppe-land.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “up-lendisc.” 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/34065.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • up-lendisc, adj.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.