dæghwamlice
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]dæġhwāmlīċe
- daily
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
- ...ac wæs getiðod þisum ealdan men; forðam þe hit is be him awriten, þæt he cwæde dæġhwāmlīce on his gebedum, "Ela, hwænne cymð se Hælend?
- ...but it was granted to this old man; for of him it is written, that he said daily in his prayers, "Ah! when will the Saviour come?
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
- ...þā læġ þǣr sum creopere lama fram cildhāde sē wæs dæġhwāmlīce ġeboren tō þām beorhtan ġete þæt hē ælmessan underfencge æt þām infarendum...
- Then lay there a cripple, lame from childhood, who was daily carried to the 'Beautiful' Gate, that he might receive alms from those entering.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
- every day
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"
- Mid þǣre bēne hē belēac ealle þā ġelēaffullan þe þurh þāra apostola bodunge ġebugon tō Cristes ġelēafan, and ġīet būgaþ dæġhwāmlīce oþ þisse weorolde ġeendunge.
- With that prayer, he included all the believers who converted to Christ's religion, and will convert every day until the end of this world.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dæg-hwamlíce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.