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éce

  • adjective
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Grammar
éce, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§434; §553;
Dele bracket, and add:
perpetual, to all time
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  • Oð ðone fyrst þe hé bócland and ǽce yrfe geearnige,

      Solil. H. 2, 12.

  • Hé on feorhgebeorh foldan hæfde eallum eorðcynne éce láfe frumcneów gehwæs túddorteóndra

    he (Noah) to save life for all that lives on earth had a remnant that should perpetuate it, to wit, the primal generation of everything that has offspring

    (i. e. from the creatures saved in the ark would come a progeny that would last till the end of time),
      Exod. 370.

  • On þæt gerád þæt hié him siþþan éce þeówas wǽren,

      Ors. 3, 8; S. 122, 4.

  • Écum rictum

    jure perpetuo,

      An. Ox. 11, 114.
eternal
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  • Hú éce ðæt is ðæt hié wilniað, hú gewítende ðæt is ðæt hié onscuniað . . . hú éciu (écu,

    v. l. aeterna

    ) ðá ðing sint,
      Past. 299, 8-10.

  • Deádlic and gewítendlic, þe á libbendu and écu,

      Solil. H. 3, 5.

  • Reste þǽre écean

    quietis aeternae,

      An. Ox. 40, 19.

  • On écium fýre,

      Past. 328, 9.

  • Ne synt ðreó écean,

      Ath. Crd. 11.

  • Gooda gifu, þeáh hí éca ne sién,

      Solil. H. 53, 4.

  • Þára écena háma,

      2, 14.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. eche. Cf. Goth. ajuk-duþs.]
Similar entries
v. þan-écan, and cf. wídefeorh-lic.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “éce.” 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/43600.

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