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bismer-lic

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Dele: unpleasant, and last passage, and add:
disgraceful, ignominious
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  • Gewearð seó mǽste sibb and seó bismerleceste,

    • Ors. 3, 1
    • ;
    • S. 94, 21
    • .
  • Hé heora ǽgþer ge mid bismere onféng, ge hié eác on þone bismerlecestan eard gesette

    cum foedissima ignominia dispersi sunt,

    • 3, 11
    • ;
    • S. 146, 34
    • .
contemptible, ridiculous, frivolous
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  • Bismerlic

    frivolus,

    i. mendax, fictus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 81:

    ridiculosum (phantasma)

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    • Hpt. Gl. 459, 35
    • .
  • Ꝥ is swíðe bysmærlic

    ridiculum est valde,

    • Gr. D. 321, 12
    • .
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v.  bismer-leóþ bismer-nes.
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  • bismer-lic,