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ildra

  • adjective
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ildra, adj.
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of greater age
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  • Hé is wintrun yldra þonne ic me aetate praeibat, Gr. D. 218, 26. I a. of parents in contrast with children :-- Bearn, beó gé underðiódde eówrum ieldrun mágum filii, obedite parentibus vestris, Past. 189, 22. I b. where persons of the same name are distinguished by age, elder, senior :-- Rómáne besǽton þone ieldran Hannibalan

    inclusus ea obsidione senior Annibal,

      Ors. 4, 6; S. 170, 29.
where difference of date is marked,
earlier, former in contrast with present
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  • His mæsse bið geseted on ðǽm eldran mæssebócum,

      Shrn. 90, 34.
  • II a. qualifying terms of relationship in direct ascent, grand-, great- [great . . .] grand- :-- Mín yldra fæder

    my grandfather,

      C. D. ii. 116, 16.
  • Felix mín eldra (yldra,

    v. l.) fæder Felix atavus meus (cf. Felix wæs his (Gregory's )

    fífta fæder,
      Hml. Th. ii. 118, 9), Gr. D. 286, 12.
  • Sió gifu hiora fæder and heora eldran (eolldran, v. l.) fæder

    vel paterni vel aviti specimen ingenii,

      Bt. 10; F. 28, 32.
  • Yldran fæder

    avitum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 61.
  • Þurh ildran fæderas

    per atavos,

      65, 72.
belonging to an earlier time
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  • Ne dyde hé swá eldran cynne,

      Ps. Th. 147, 9.
deno-ting position, rank,
greater, superior, elder
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  • Ðá Apostolas and þá eldran (ældran, yldran, v. ll.) bróðor

    Apostoli et seniores fratres,

      Ll. Th. i. 56, 13.
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