missenlice

Old English

Etymology

From missen (“different”) +‎ -līċe (“-ly”). Compare mislīċe (“differently”), from mis- (“diversely, in different ways”) +‎ -līċe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /misˈsenˌliː.t͡ʃe/

Adverb

missenlīċe

1. differently, variously, diversely
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     swā nū missenlīċe · ġeond þisne middanġeard
     winde biwāune · weallas stondaþ,
     hrīme bihrorene, · hrȳðġe þā ederas.

     as now walls are standing differently
     over this world, blown by wind,
     covered by frost, the slow-swept dwellings.

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “missenlīċe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.