gesceadlice
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ġescēadlīċe
- reasonably, rationally
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
- Ful gescēadlīce ðū mē andswarast and ful rihte.
- Very reasonably thou dost answer me and very rightly.
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gesceadlice”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.