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wundor-líc

  • adjective
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wundor-líc, adj.
Wonderful, exciting admiration or surprise
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  • Is wundorlíc (mirabilis)

    • Drihten, Ps. Th. 92, 5
      • :
    • Met. 20, 3.

  • Wunderlíc,

    • Bt. 33, 4
      • ;
    • Fox 128, 4.

  • Mín (an angel's) nama is mycel and wundorlíc,

      Blickl. Homl. 137, 29.

  • Wundorlíc (mirabilis) is geworden ðín wísdóm,

    • Ps. Th. 138, 4
      • :
    • 118, 129.

  • Hit is wundorlíc, ðæt ic secgan wille,

    • Bt. 20
      • ;
    • Fox 70, 27.

  • Ðys is fram Drihtne geworden, and hit ys wundorlíc (wundurlíc,

      Lind.
    : wunderlíc,
      Rush.
    mirabile) on úrum eágum,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 21, 42
      • :
    • Ps. Th. 117, 21.

  • Ðæt is wundorlíc, ðæt gé nyton hwanon hé is,

    • Jn. Skt. 9, 30
      • :
    • Met. 20, 86.

  • Cymeþ wundorlíc Cristes onsýn,

    • Exon. Th. 56, 25
      • ;
    • Cri. 906.

  • Wundorlíc wræcca (Nebuchadnezzar),

    • Cd. Th. 256, 1
      • ;
    • Dan. 634.

  • Wundorlíc wǽgbora,

    • Beo. Th. 2884
      • ;
    • B. 1440.

  • Ic eom wunderlícu wiht,

    • Exon. Th. 399, 16
      • ;
    • Rä. 19, 1
      • :
    • 400, 14
      • ;
    • Rä. 21, 1.

  • Ðæt wæs wunderlícu gemetgung

    miro modo,

    • Past, 17
      • ;
    • Swt. 113, 16.

  • Wunderlíc gestreón

    mirandum negotium,

      Hpt. Gl. 469, 3.

  • Oft hwæm gebyreþ ðæt hé hwæt mǽrlíces and wundorlíces gedéð,

    • Past. 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 39, 6.

  • Hé (Samson) wearð swíðe ofþyrst for ðam wundorlícan slege,

      Jud. 15, 18.

  • Wundorlícre hrædnysse hé bið álýsed,

      Lchdm. i. 288, 16.

  • On wundorlícre mycelnesse,

      Blickl. Homl. 181, 20.

  • Gesáwon hié wundorlíce wyrd, ðone man lifgendne ðone ðe hié ǽr deádne forléton,

      217, 36.

  • Wundorlíc tácn,

      205, 31.

  • Ic ðé sǽde swíðe lang spell and wundorlíc,

    • Bt. 35, 5
      • ;
    • Fox 166, 2.

  • Hú ða wísan sind wundorlíce,

    • Exon. Th. 223, 14
      • ;
    • Ph. 359.

  • Hú his ða goodan weorc syndon wundorlíce

    quam terribilia sunt opera ejus,

      Ps. Th. 65, 2.

  • Gif ðú wénst ðætte wundorlíce gerela[n?] hwelc weorþmynd sié,

    • Bt. 14, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 42, 18.

  • Hwonon him ða wundorlícan gereordo cóman,

      Blickl. Homl. 153, 8.

  • Eorðe brengð wæstma fela wundorlícra,

      Met. 20, 101.

  • Sió hæfde wæstum wundorlícran,

    • Exon. Th. 413, 14
      • ;
    • Rä. 32, 5.

  • Dá cwóman ðǽr nædran wunderlícran ðonne ða óþre wǽron and egeslícran ... wǽron hié wunderlícre micelnisse,

      Nar. 14, 1-3.

  • Seó burg ðe ǽr wæs ealra weorca fæstast and wunderlecast and mǽrast,

    • Ors. 2, 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 74, 24.

  • Is ðæt eác ealles wundorlícost, ðæt...,

      Blickl. Homl. 127, 14.
Etymology
[
Laym. wunder-lic
:
Orm. wunnderr-like
:
Wick. wondir-li
:
O. Sax. wundar-lík
:
O. H. Ger. wuntar-líh
:
Icel. undr-ligr.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wundor-líc.” 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/36860.

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