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UN-EÁÐE - UN-FÆGER

un-eáðe and un-iéðe (-éðe, -íðe, -ýðe); adj. I. of that which is not easy to do, difficult, hard :-- Nis ðæt uneáðe ealwealdan Gode tó gefremmanne, Andr. Kmbl. 409; An. 205. Hé sæ-acute;de ðæt se cræft uniéðe wæ-acute;re tó gehealdenne praedicit quia difficile capitur, Past. 52; Swt. 409, 20. Hit is uniéðe tó gesecgenne hú monege gewin wæ-acute;ron, Ors. 1, 12; Swt. 52, 8. II. of that which is not easy to bear, troublesome, unpleasant, grievous :-- Se líchoma on ðone fúlostan stenc bið gecyrred ... and hé byð uneáðe æ-acute;lcon men on neáweste tó hæbbenne, Blickl. Homl. 59, 15. Uneáðe mé is ðis I am in a great strait (2 Sam. 24, 14), Homl. Skt. i. 13, 247. Ðæt folc hine hæfde swá yfele swá hé sumes þinges scyldig wæ-acute;re ... and him wæs swá uneáþe amang ðám, and him þa eágan floterodon, and bitere teáras áléton, 23, 654. For hwý sceal æ-acute;nigum menn ðyncan tó réðe oððe tó uniéðe ðæt hé Godes suingellan geðafige cur asperum creditur, ut a Deo homo toleret flagella? Past. 36; Swt. 261, 20. Seó wíse wæs míne (in mé, v. l.) on twá healfa unéþe quae res dupliciter me torsit, Nar. 9, 23. Him bið unéþe þurst getenge he will be oppressed by troublesome thirst, Lchdm. ii. 174, 23. Wamb ungewealden and unýþe, 242, 5. Unýþe molestus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 12. Swá oft swá we óht uneáþes þrowian æt yfflum monnum, Blickl. Homl. 33, 22. Hé Gode þancie ealles ðæs ðe hé him forgeaf, æ-acute;gðer ge ýðran ge unýðran, L. E. I. 29; Th. ii. 426, 11. Hé was underfange[n] of ðám hádesmannum ðe him ealra uneáþest was, ðæt was clerican he was received by those of the clergy that it was most distasteful to him to be received by, that is by the secular clergy (cf. Aþelwold dráf út ða clerca of þe biscopríce, 963; Th. i. 220, 19), Chr. 995; Th. i. 244, 6. III. of that which is not readily done, to which one is not easily moved, and so is little done :-- Ðú gionga, bió ðé uníðe tó clipianne and tó læ-acute;ranne do not let it be an easy matter to you to call and to teach; adolescens loquere vix, Past. 49; Swt. 385, 10. [Þeih hem be uneáðe ne sal nafre eft Crist þolien deað for lesen hem of deaðe, O. E. Homl. ii. 225, 183. Corineus was uneðe and wa on his mode, Laym. 2259.]

un-eáðe; adv. I. where a thing is not easily done, with difficulty :-- Se weliga uneáþe (-eáðe, Lind.) gæ-acute;þ in heofuna ríce dives difficule intrabit in regnum coelorum, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 19, 23. Swíðe uneáðe (-eáða, Lind.) &l-bar; hefige, Mk. Skt. Rush. 10, 23: Lk. Skt. Lind. 18, 24. Hé uneáðe áwæig com, and him ðæ-acute;r micel forférde, Chr.1052; Erl. 181, 18. Swíðe strang gyld, ðæt man hit uneáðe ácom, 1040; Erl. 166, 21. Ða lufe mon mæg swíðe uneáþe oððe ná forbeódan, Bt. 35, 6; Fox 170, 11. Ongit hé swá micle máran sige on him selfum swá hé uniéð wiðstód he will feel so much greater victory in himself as he had greater difficulty in withstanding, Past. 52; Swt. 407, 26. Ðisse ádle fruman mon mæg ýþelíce gelácnian ... and æfter unéð, gif hió bið unwíslíce tó lange forlæ-acute;ten, Lchdm. ii. 232, 17. Cumaþ æalle tó ánum hláforde, sume æ-acute;ð sume unéð, Shrn. 187, 15. II. where a thing is not easily borne, grievously, hardly :-- Sume uneáþe gedrycnede (gedrehte, MS. C.) áweg cóman turpi macie exinanitos adflictosque pestilentia dimiserit, Ors. 3, 3; Swt. 102, 10. Ríc heofna uneáðe geðolas regnum caelorum vim patitur, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 11, 12. III. where a thing is not readily done, unwillingly, hardly :-- Ðá geþafedon ðæt uneáþe ða his gesacan quod cum adversarii inviti concederent, Bd. 2, 2; S. 502, 24. Ðá underféng hé hig uneáðe vix fratre compellente suscipiens, Gen. 33, 11. IV. with a force only slightly removed from a negative, hardly, scarcely, only just :-- Uneáþe cwic ætberstende vix vivus evadens, Coll. Monast. Th. 27, 3. Uneáðe Isaac geendode ðás spræ-acute;ce ðá com Esau vix Isaac sermonem impleverat, venit Esau, Gen. 27, 30. Hé uneáþe ðurh hine sylfne oþþe árísan oþþe gangan mihte vix ipse per se exsurgere aut incedere valeret, Bd. 4, 31; S. 610, 19. Uneáþe ic mæg forstandan ðíne ácsunga and cwist þeáh ðæt ic ðé andwyrdan scyle vix rogationis tuae sententiam nosco, ne dum ad inquisita respondere queam, Bt. 5, 3; Fox 12, 15. Ic hit mæg uneáþe mid wordum gereccan sententiam verbis explicare vix queo, 20; Fox 70, 27. Uneáþe æ-acute;nig com tó ende ðære spræ-acute;ce ad rem ... cui vix exhausti quidquam satis sit, 39, 4; Fox 216, 16. Uneáðe (pretium scorti) vix (est unius panis, Prov. 6, 26), Kent. Gl. 163. Ungeáþe (uneáþe, Cott. MS.), Bt. 35, 3; Fox 158, 28. [Itt wass till ennde brohht unnæþe and all wiþþ ange, Orm. 16289. Þu me hauest sore igramed þat ic mai uneaþe speke, O. and N. 1605. Cf. He spac uneðes, so e gret, Gen. and Ex. 2341. Chauc. unnethe, unnethes, and v. Halliwell's Dict. unnethe.]

un-eáðelíc; adj.I. difficult to do, impossible :-- Uneáðelíc ðæt ys mid mannum apud homines hoc impossibile est, Mt. Kmbl. 19, 26. Uneáþelíc, Mk. Skt. 10, 27. Líg fýres on ceafa yrnende æthabban ys uneáþelíc flammam ignis in paleas currentem retinere est impossibile, Scint. 57, 7. II. difficult to bear, grievous, troublesome :-- Ne heó (a sin) næ-acute;fre ne þince eów tó ðan hefig ne tó ðan uneáðelíc ne tó ðam fracodlíc, ðæt gé æ-acute;fre læ-acute;ton æ-acute;nig ðing ungeandett, Wulfst. 135, 12. Unéþelícne wæterbollan a grievous dropsy, Lchdm. ii. 204, 13. Ðás onfóað unéðelíc (-éðlíc, Lind.) dóm hi accipient prolixius judicium, Mk. Skt. Rush. 12, 40.

un-eáðelíce; adv. I. with difficulty :-- Mid ðý wit ðæt unéþelíce ðurhtugan ðæt hé ðæs geþafa beón wolde cum hoc difficulter impetraremus, Bd. 5, 4; S. 617, 17. Hé geseah ðæt hé unýþelíce (diffculter) mihte ða heánnesse ðæs cynelícan módes tó eádmódnesse gecyrran, 2, 12; S. 512, 27. II. with trouble or inconvenience, under difficulties :-- Hé uniéþelíce æfter wudum fór and on mórfæstenum, Chr. 878; Erl. 78, 33. Ða scipu wurdon swíðe unéðelíce áseten the ships were stranded in a most inconvenient manner, 897; Erl. 95, 29.

un-eáðelícness, e; f. Difficulty :-- Ðá wæs mycel unéþelícnes geworden be his byrignesse facta difficultate tumulandi, Bd. 4, 11; S. 580, 8.

un-eáðlácn[e?], -læ-acute;cne; adj. Not easily cured :-- Biþ ðonne se milte uneáþlæ-acute;cne, ðonne ðæt blód áheardaþ on ðæ-acute;m æ-acute;drum, Lchdm. ii. 250, 5. Cyrnelu uneáðlácnu, 240, 21. Ða dolh beóþ uneáðlácnu, 242, 10. Uneáðlácno, 242, 3. Seó wæ-acute;te wyrcþ uneáþlácna áðla, 226, 15.

un-eáðlæ-acute;ce; adj. Not easily cured :-- Gif hit biþ of yfelre inwæ-acute;tan hit biþ ðe uneáþlæ-acute;cra, Lchdm. ii. 258, 27.

un-eáðmilte; adj. Not easily digested, indigestible :-- Sió melt mete wel, swíþost ða ðe hearde beóð and uneáðmylte, Lchdm. ii. 220, 23.

un-eáðness, e; f. I. uneasiness of mind, anxiety, trouble, grief, difficulty :-- Hé ealle ða word gehýrde, and æ-acute;fre wæs his uneáðnys wexende, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 621. Ne biþ ðæ-acute;r sár ne gewinu, ne næ-acute;nig unéþnes, ne sorg ne wóp, Blickl. Homl. 103, 35. Hé swýþe weóp and mid mycelre unéðnysse his eágospind mid teárum leohte. Ðá fréfrode hine Gúthlác and him cwæð tó: 'Ne beó ðú ná geunrótsod, forþon ne bið mé næ-acute;nig unéðnysse ðæt ic tó Drihtne fare, Guthl. 20; Gdwin. 82, 2-8. Hí on wópe wæ-acute;ron and hí on uneáðnysse spræ-acute;con, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 247. Ðú manigfeald yfel hæfdest and micle unéþnesse on ðam ríce, Bt. 27, 2; Fox 96, 13. Ealle angnysse and uneáðnysse, Lchdm. iii. 156, 13. Gif hit geberige ðæt hé ða unæ-acute;tnessa ábidan scel, Chart. Th. 509, 33. Hwæt wylt ðú tó méde gesyllan ðam ðe ðe fram ðissum unéðnyssum álýseþ? Shrn. 16, 29. Ðú canst míne yrmþa, ðú mé wæ-acute;re symble on fultume on mínum unýðnyssum, Guthl. 21; Gdwin. 94, 11. II. severity, harshness :-- Ða ðe ðæ-acute;r gefongne wæ-acute;ron hié tawedan mid ðære mæ-acute;stan uniéðnesse; sume ofslógon, sume ofswungon, sume wið feó gesealdon, Ors. 4, 1; Swt. 154, 8.

Unecunga? The word occurs in a list of territorial names :-- Unecung(a?)ga (Ynetunga, p. 415; Unecung-ga, p. 416) twelf hund hýda, Cod. Dip. B. i. 414, 26.

un-efn, -efen, -emn, -emne(?); adj. Unequal, unlike, dissimilar, diverse, irregular :-- Hú ðæ-acute;r wæs unefen racu unc gemæ-acute;ne, ic onféng ðín sár ðæt ðú móste gesæ-acute;lig mínes éþelríces neótan, Exon. Th. 89, 20; Cri. 1460. Dysigra monna mód bið suíðe unemn and suíðe ungelíc ... Ac ðara monna mód bið suíðe unemn, for ðæm hit gedéð hit self him selfum suíðe ungelíc for ðære gelómlícan wendinge, for ðæm hit næ-acute;fre eft ne bið ðæt hit æ-acute;r wæs cor stultorum dissimile erit ... Cor vero stultorum dissimile est, quia, dum mutabilitate se varium exhibet, numquam id, quod fuerat, manet, Past. 42; Swt. 306, 12-18. Sume word synd gehátene anomala oþþe inequalia. Anomalus is unemne, inequalis ungelíc, Ælfc. Gr. 32; Zup. 199, 3. Ða unefne &l-bar; ungelíco burna woegas diversos rivulorum tramites, Mt. Kmbl. p. 2, 9.

un-efne; adv. Unequally, diversely :-- Swá unefne is eorþe þicce sicut crassitudo terrae, Ps. Th. 140, 9.

un-efnlíc; adj. Unequal, diverse :-- Unefenlícra diversarum, Mt. Kmbl. p. 7, 5.

un-endebyrdlíce; adv. In a disorderly manner, without order, irregularly :-- Gif hé unendebyrdlíce onet mid ðære spræ-acute;ce si inordinate ad loquendum rapitur, Past. 15; Swt. 93, 18. Ðonne ðæt mód bið forlæ-acute;ten and onstyred and tódæ-acute;led ungedafenlíce and unendebyrdlíce on unðeáwas si inordinatis dimissa motibus mens vitiis dissipatur, 43; Swt. 315, 7. Unendebyrdlíce inordinate, Scint. 101, 14: 191, 3.

un-ered; adj. Unploughed :-- Unered land rus, Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 49.

un-éðe, un-éwisc. v. un-eáðe, un-æ-acute;wisc.

un-fæ-acute;cne, -fácne; adj. Without deceit, without fraud :-- Unfaecni, -fécni non subscivum, Txts. 81, 1386. Unfæ-acute;cne (printed -sæcne), Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 16. Gif man mægð gebigeþ ceápi, geceápod sý, gif hit unfácne is, L. Ethb. 77; Th. i. 22, 2. Gif man mannan ofsleá, unfácne feó gehwilce gelde (there should be no fraud as regards anything given in payment of the wergild), 30; Th. i. 10, 4. Ic Heaþobeardna hyldo ne talige Denum unfæ-acute;cne, freóndscipe fæstne, Beo. Th. 4143; B. 2068. Hæbbe hé him twégen oþþe þreó unfácne ceorlas tó gewitnesse, L. H. G. 16; Th. i. 34, 4.

un-faederlíce; adv. In an unfatherly manner :-- Saturnus wæs swá wælhreów, ðæt hé fordyde his ágene bearn ealle bútan ánum and unfæderlíce macode heora líf tó lyre, Wulfst. 106, 6.

un-fæ-acute;ge; adj. Not fey, not appointed to die :-- Mæg unfæ-acute;ge eáðe gedígan weán and wræcsíð, se ðe Waldendes hyldo gehealdeþ out of misery and exile may easily come one not appointed to die, who possesses God's favour, Beo. Th. 4571; B. 2291. Wyrd oft nereþ unfæ-acute;gne eorl, ðonne his ellen deáh, 1150; B. 573. [Icel. ú-feigr not fey.] v. un-fæ-acute;glíc.

un-fæger; adj. Not fair, not beautiful, foul, ugly, horrid :-- Sió gefrédnes mæg gefrédan ðæt hit líchoma biþ, ac hió ne mæg gefrédan hwæþer hé biþ ðe blac ðe hwít, ðe fæger þe unfæger, Bt. 41, 4; Fox 252, 12. Þincð his (a dead man's) neáwist láþlíco and unfæger, Blickl. Homl. 111, 30. Him of eágum stód líge gelícost leóht unfæger from Grendel's eyes there shot a horrid light like flame, Beo. Th. 1459; B. 727. Se unfægera larbata (cf. hreófe larbatos, 86, 64: egisgríma larbula, 112, 21), Wrt. Voc. ii. 95, 68. [Goth. un-fagrs ingratus: Icel. ú-fagr ugly.]