fæstlice
Old English
Alternative forms
- feastlīċe (late)
Etymology
From fæst + -līċe. Cognate with Old High German fastlīhho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfæstˌliː.t͡ʃe/
Adverb
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
Derived terms
- ǣfæstlīċe
- ġefæstlīċe
- unfæstlīċe
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fæstlíce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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