Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sċand + -līċ. Cognate with Old High German skantlīh.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sċandlīċ (superlative scandlīċest)
- (people) disgraceful, infamous, vile, base; lowly
- (things) vile in nature, disgraceful, foul, shameful, obscene
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Sē wōda ðā āwende āweġ his ċeaflas fram ðǣre hālgan handa, swilċe fram hātum īsene, and sē āwyrġeda gāst ġewāt of ðām men ūt ðurh his ġesċēapu, mid sċēandlīcum flēame.
- The madman then turned his cheeks away from the holy man's hands as if from hot iron, and the accursed spirit departed the man through his genitals with shameful flight.
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- causing shame
Declension
[edit]Declension of sċandlīċ — Strong
Declension of sċandlīċ — Weak
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: scondliche, schandliche
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sceandlíc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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