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híhþ

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Grammar
híhþ, híhþu, híhþo.
Take here heáhþu in Dict., and add:
distance from the base upwards, altitude, elevation above the ground
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  • Þæs stánes héhþé

    obolisci proceritatem, i. altitudinem,

    • An. Ox. 3525.
figurative:
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  • Heálic héþ

    edita (pudicitiae) proceritas,

    • An. Ox. 1699

  • Swá mycelum swá hé on hýþe upp áhefð

    quanto in alto se erigit,

    • Sci. it. 84, 16
      • .
high degree of a quality
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  • Heálicere héhþe

    (in tam) pręcelso (puritatis) fastigio,

    • An. Ox. 4408
      • .
a high point or position
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  • On héhþe árǽredne

    in edito, i. in fastigio porrectam.

    • An. Ox. 4437
      • .
the highest part of anything, a summit, top
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  • Héhþe

    apicem, i. summitatem,

    • An. Ox. 3528
      • .

  • Héh[þe]

    verticem, i. cacumen,

    • 384.

  • Heáhðo

    culmina,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 2
      • .

  • Heáhþo,

    • 6.
the highest point, extreme degree
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  • Mæg[en] sóðes gebedes ys hýhð

    (celsitudo)

    sóðre lufe,

    • Scint. 4, 20
      • .
the regions above, the heavens
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  • Þænne hýhð heofenlic

    (celsitudo caeleslis)

    byð openud,

    • Scint. 180, 15
      • .

  • Ástág in middangeard freóbearn Godes of heáhðu,

    • Cri. 789
      • .

  • Hé his þone hálgan líchaman áhóf úp in heofene hýhðo,

    • Först. Verc. 129, 5
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  • On heáhðum,

    • Cri. 867
      • :
    • GC. 768
      • :
    • 1061
      • .

  • Englas twégen cleopedon of heáhðum,

    • Cri. 508
      • .
in the phrase on híhþu (-um),
in an exalted condition or estimation
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  • Geþanc heortan úre swá micelum mid Gode on neowlum ys swá hit mannum on hýhþe

    (in alto);

    and eúdmódnys heortan úre swá micelum mid Gode on hýhþe ys swá micelum swá mannum on neowlum,

    • Scint. 21, 11-14
      • .
in the highest degree
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  • Þæt hí lof Godes hergan on heáhðu,

    • Dóm. 48
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  • On héhðo,

    • An. 1000
      • .

  • On heáhðum,

    • Jul. 560
      • .
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v.  heáhþu héhþu.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “híhþ.” 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/52482.

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