fæstlice
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- feastlīċe (late)
Etymology[edit]
From fæst + -līċe. Cognate with Old High German fastlīhho.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
fæstlīċe
- firmly, constantly, fast, fast in hold; fastly
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
- Swīðe endebyrdlīce þū hyt recst, ac ic þē wille secgan ġēt þēah hwæs [ic] þǣr fæstlīce ġelȳfe [and] ymb hwæt ic þǣr ġȳt twēoge.
- Very orderly thou dost explain it, but I will yet say to thee what I firmly believe, and about what I yet doubt.
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
- fast, quickly, speedily, at once
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References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fæstlíce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.