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hrífe

  • adjective
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hrífe, (?); adj.
Rapacious, fierce.
of animals
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  • Wé ús warnigan scoldon wið þá missenlican cynd nædrena and hrífra wildeóra (

    serpentes et rapida ferarum genera

    ),
      Nar. 5, 28.

  • Þurh þá lond þe þá unárefnedlican cyn nǽdrena and hrífra wildeóra (

    execrabilia serpentum et rapida ferarum beluarumque genera

    ) in wǽron,
      6, 18.

  • Þurh þá stówe þe missenlicra cynna eardung in wæs nǽdrena and rífra wildeóra

    per bestiosa serpentiosa que loca,

      10, 5.

  • Alle ðá ǽttrena and gett ðá rífista feerrǽsenda ǽc nétna sceðende

    omnia venenata et adne ferociora repentia et animalia noxia,

      Rtl. 125, 31. [
of things, destructive
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  • Ðére vii. niht gyf win[d] byoð, fír byð swýðe rýfe þý geáre

    si in septima nocte fuerit ventus, ignis multa destruet in illo anno,

    Archiv cxxviii.
      57, 2.
    ]
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. rife. Some of the early instances there given might be taken in the sense which is here given to hrífe.]
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v. hrífnian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hrífe.” 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/53213.

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