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yfele

  • adverb
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yfele, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§553; §556;
Evilly, badly, ill
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  • Yfele

    male,

      Ælfc. Gr. 38; Zup. 235, 1.
in a moral sense
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  • Yfele gé dydon

    pessimam rem fecistis,

      Gen. 44, 5.
  • Hit is gecweden, ðæt him betere wǽre ðæt hé nǽfre wǽre, ðonne hé yfele wǽre,

      Homl. Th. ii. 244, 21.
badly, imperfectly, improperly
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  • Seó-bóc wæs yfele of Grécisce on Léden gehwyrfed (

    badly translated

    ),
      Bd. 5, 24; S. 648, 23.
  • Hé ða gehát swíðe yfele gelǽste,

      Bt. 1; Fox 2, 9.
  • Gif ic yfele sprǽce

    si male locutus sum,

      Jn. Skt. 18, 23.
  • Gif se esne his hláforde hýreþ yfle,

      Exon. Th. 430, 18; Rä. 44, 10.
where there is hurt or suffering
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  • Mín dohtor ys yfle (yfele,

    v. l.) mid deófle gedreht (grievously afflicted ),

      Mt. Kmbl. 15, 22.
  • Ðú eart, Babilone, bitere ætfæsted, ænge and yfele, hire earm dohter

    filia Babylonis misera,

      Ps. Th. 136, 8.
  • Fremde þeóde ðín hús yfele gewemdan,

      Ps. Th. 78, 1.
  • Wel tó dónne hweþer ðe yfele; sáwla gehǽlan hweþer ðe forspillan? Mk. Skt. 3, 4.
  • Se abbot dyde heom yfele,

      Chr. 1087; Erl. 217, 7.
  • Wæs Godes yrre þurh ða dǽde yfele geníwod,

      Wulfst. 10, 1.
  • Ic him yfle ne mót, Exon. Th. 491, 5; Rä. 80, 9. III a. of bodily suffering :-- Gif men sié fǽrlíce yfele

    if it suddenly goes badly with a man,

      Lchdm. ii. 294, 15.
  • Ðes lǽcedóm sceal tó ðam menn ðe byð yfele on ðam breóstum, iii. 120, 1.
marking ill-success
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  • Yfele déð him sylfum (

    he does badly for himself

    ) ðe mid swícdóme his tilaþ, and hé bið sceaðena geféra ðe man sceandlíce wítnaþ,
      Homl. Skt. i. 19, 172: Cd. Th. 49, 13; Gen. 791.
  • Ðý læs wén sié ðæt wé yfele forweorþon

    lest perhaps we perish miserably,

      Blickl. Homl. 247, 2: Ps. Th. 79, 15: 106, 26.
  • Hé ðá yfele and earmlíce geendode,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 546.
  • On ðære fare heom yfele gelamp,

      Chr. 1075; Erl. 212, 22.
  • Sceolde unc Adame yfele gewurðan ymb ðæt heofonríce,

      Cd. Th. 25, 2; Gen. 387.
of injurious speaking
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  • Ic wyrige oððe yfele secge

    maledico,

      Ælfc. Gr. 37; Zup. 222, 4.
  • Nis nán ðe on mínum naman mægen wyrce, and mæge raðe be mé yfele specan (

    male loqui de me

    ),
      Mk. Skt. 9, 39.
  • Oft mé feala cwǽdon feóndas yfele

    dixerunt inimici mei mala mihi,

      Ps. Th. 70, 9.
Etymology
[O. Sax. uƀilo: O. H. Ger. ubilo.]
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  • yfele, adv.