healice

Old English

Etymology

From hēah +‎ -līċe.

Adverb

hēalīċe

  1. highly, on high, to a high position or degree, greatly, extremely.
  2. with a high quality, nobly.
  3. elaborately, with perfect workmanship.

Descendants

  • Middle English: heyȝliche, heȝly, hiȝly

References

  • heálíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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