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heá-lic

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reaching to a great height, lofty, tall
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  • Heofon is wundorlíce heálic and wíd on ymbhwyrfte; sé gǽð under ðás eorðan ealswá deóp swá bufan,

    • Hex. 10, 1
    • .
  • Man áhéng hí on heálicum gealgan,

    • Hml. A. 95, 119
    • .
  • Heálicum sǽnesse

    edito (alto) promontorio,

    • An. Ox. 576
    • .
  • Heálicne píntreówes bóh

    procerum pini stipitem

    (cf. ǽnne heáhne pínbeám.

    • Hml. Th. ii. 508, 24
    • ),
    • 2221
    • .
  • Heálicum boga bígelsum

    celsis arcuum fornicibus,

    • 510.
  • Mid heálicum cederbeámum,

    • Hex. 12, 4.
situated at a great height, high up:
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  • Heálic sittende mǽden

    sublimis residens virgo,

    • Hy. S. 108, 7
    • .
  • On heálicere héhnysse

    in alto (tribunalis) culmine,

    • An. Ox. 3454
    • .
  • Hé gewát tó ðan Hǽlende þe hé on heofenan heálicne standende geseah

    (cf. Video filium hominis stantem a dextris Dei,

    • Acts 7, 56
    • ),
    • Hml. Th. i. 48, 7
    • .
  • Heálice heofona heáhnyssa ástígan

    summa polorum culmina scandere,

    • Hy. S. 88, 7
    • .
of persons.
of high rank, position or dignity
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  • Gedsæf on gehwǽdum forbúge heálic beón gehæfd

    contentus modicis uitet sublimis haberi,

    • Wülck. Gl. 257, 33
    • .
  • Heálic

    atrox (quasi atrox regina imperium usurpans,

    • Ald. 10, 29
    • ),
    • Hpt. Gl. 422, 21
    • .
  • Ðe is leófre on ðisum wácum scræfum ðonne ðú on healle heálic biscop sitte,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 146, 28
    • .
  • Uton wé þus heálices and ðus foremǽres mundboran láre folgian,

    • Bl. H. 169, 17
    • .
  • Stefn heálices fæderes

    vox excelsi Patris,

    • Hy. S. 49, 7
    • .
  • Hí ðone Hǽlend wurðodon and nǽnne óðerne swá heálicne ne tealdon,

    • Hml. S. 11, 97
    • .
  • Ðá yfelan

    (Venus)

    wurðiað þá hǽðenan for heálice fǽmnan,

    • Wlfst. 107, 17
    • .
of noble qualities
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  • Geearnungum heálic

    meritis celsus,

    • Hy. S. 104, 15
    • .
of material things,
of superior kind, of high class or degree
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  • Gif hé gesóhte heálicne heáfodstede,

    • Ll. Th. i. 330, 15
    • .
of excellent quality, precious (stone)
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  • For heálicum gymstánum,

    • Hml. S. 20, 60
    • .
  • Se heofon is betera and heálicra and fægerra ðonne eall his innung.

    • Bt. 32, 2
    • ;
    • F. 116, 10
    • .
of non-material things,
reaching a high degree,
of the voice,
elevated, raised, loud
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(v. heálíce; IIIa.)
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  • Þá hǽþenan clypodon mid heálicre stemne,

    • Hml. S. 31, 1031
    • .
high in respect to worth, dignity, etc.
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  • Heálic héþ

    edita (pudi*-*citiae) proceritas,

    • An. Ox. 1698
    • .
  • Heálic wyrþment, synderlic gifu

    prerogatiua, i. excellentia,

    • 2572.
  • On heálicere héhnysse ł geþinþe

    edito (i. alto) fastigio,

    • 929:

    precelso,

    • 4407.
  • Sum heálic gód

    quandam claritudinem,

    • Bt. 24, 3
    • ;
    • F. 82, 23
    • .
  • Þú forsihst ðone heálican wurðmynt (gloriam mundi),

    • Hml. Th. ii. 146, 27
    • .
  • Abel hæfde þreó heálice mihta (

    tria maxima justitiae praeconia),

    • Angl. vii. 8, 78
    • .
of feeling, condition,
profound, intense, extreme
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  • heálic swige æt þǽm gereorde

    summum fiat silentium ad mensam,

    • R. Ben. 62, 13
    • .
  • Heálicra mildheortnysse

    summe clementiae,

    • Hy. S. 29, 7
    • .
  • Mid heálicum geþylde,

    • Hml. A. 21, 176
    • .
  • Mid heálicere gecneordnisse,

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 16, 46
    • .
  • Hié hæfdon miccle lufan and eác heálico ondrysnu,

    • Bl. H. 205, 8
    • .
as an epithet of what is evil,
deep guilt, grievous sin, profound error
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  • Nis nán leahter swá heálic ꝥ man ne mæg gebétan,

    • Hml. S. 12, 157
    • .
  • On þám heálicon gedwylde þæt hí swá fúle [men] him tó godum gecuran,

    • Wlfst. 107, 24
    • .
  • On ðæt heálice gedwyld,

    • Sal. K. p. 123, 106
    • .
  • Hí þǽr heálicne on hryre gefremedan

    multiplicata est in eis ruina,

    • Ps. Th. 105, 23
    • .
  • Wið eallum þǽm heálicum synnum,

    • Bl. N. 7
    • .
  • Þurh heálice misdǽda,

    • Ll. Th. i. 404, 1
    • .
of a high degree of excellence, noble, excellent
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  • Heálic lár

    praecipuum documentum,

    • Hpt. Gl. 455, 27
    • :
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 19
    • .
  • Þæt is heálic dæg, béntíd brému,

    • Men. 74
    • :
    • 37
    • .
  • Þæt is heálic rǽd monna gehwylcum,

    • Cri. 430
    • .
  • Mid heálicum ealdordóme

    authentica auctoritate.

    • An. Ox. 2597
    • .
  • Mid heálicere

    superna (potestate),

    • 3531.
  • Heálicre gife

    charismate,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 25
    • .
  • Heálice synde[r]gife

    felix priuilegium,

    • An. Ox. 2588
    • .
  • Heálicum

    eximia, nobilia, insignia,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 5
    • .
  • Þá heálican gewyrhto Sce Ióhannes,

    • Bl. H. 167, 5
    • .
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. highly.
O. H. Ger. hóh*-*lih sublimis
:
Icel. há-ligr.
]
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