; adj. I. that conveys reproach, calumny, etc.,
calumnious, blasphemous :-- Þeáh hwá cweðe tállíc word ongeán mé, him biþ forgifen,
Homl. Th. i. 498, 24. Of ðære heortan cumaþ ... tállíce word (
blasphemiae), Mt. Kmbl. 15, 19. Hí cwǽdon ðæt hé tállíce word sprǽce be Moyse and be Gode (
this man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law, Acts 6, 13), Homl. Th. i. 44, 29: 46, 1.