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gál
/ɣa:l /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Adjective
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gál
; adj. Add :-- Gál, wrǽne petulcus, i. luxuriosus, An. Ox. 3336. Se Iovis wearð swá swíðe gál, þæt hé on his ágenre swyster gewífode, Wlfst. 106, 12. Twá mǽdencild . . . þ̵ án sydefull and þ̵ óðer sceandlic . . . þ̵ clǽne herigendlic, þ̵ gále tállic, Hml. S. 5, 281. Gálre, wrénre petulantis, An. Ox. 4705. Gálre fluentis, i. lascive, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 62. Sé ðe behylt wímman mid gálre gesihðe and fúlum luste, Hml. Th. i. 492, 17. Mid clǽnnysse þæt gále gecynd gewyldan, 360, 2. Helle bryne eów wæs gegearwod for eówer gǽlnesse gǽlra dǽda, Angl. xii. 510, 12. [v. N. E. D. gole.] v. wíf-gal.
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-gal
, -gil, -gel, as sin-gal perpetual, continual : wíd-gal, wíd-gil, wíd-gel, wide-spread, March. 38; p. 27, 8. v. wíd-gil, wíd-gal.
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GÁL
, es; n. Lust, wantonness, lightness, folly; lascīvia, lĭbīdo, luxŭria, lĕvĭtas :-- Hie hyra gál beswác their folly deceived them, Cd. 18; Th. 21, 21; Gen. 327. Gódes oððe gáles of good or evil, Exon. 23 a; Th, 64, 9; Cri. 1035. [Cf. Icel. gáll, m. a fit of gaiety.]
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gál
; adj. Light, pleasant, wanton, licentious, wicked; lĕvis, libīdĭnōsus, luxŭriōsus, mălus :-- Ðam unstæððigan and ðam gálan, ðú miht secggan, ðæt he [MS. hi] biþ winde gelícra, ðonne gemetfæstum monnum to the inconstant and the light [man], thou mayest say that he is more like the wind, than modest men, Bt. 37, 4; Fox 192, 23, note 20, MS. Cott. Ðæt he gesáwe ungelíce béc him berende beón þurh ða gódan gástas oððe þurh ða gálan ut cōdĭces diversos per bŏnos sīve mălos spīrĭtus sĭbi vīdĕrit offerri, Bd. 5, 13; S. 633, 25.
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