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inedicibilis [ML] , a (in good sense) ineffable, wonderful. b (in bad sense) unspeakable, horrible. c incalculable. a †709 (12c) subthronizatus regali solio et ‥ per pantocratoris ~em potentiam sullimatus ‥ CS 124; quicquid ‥ placet in hoc codicello exarare, suffulti ~ibus [gl.: unasecgendlicum] collumnis antiquorum Byrht. Man. 198; Id. V. Ecgwini 376 (v. gaudere 1a); ecce domus tota ~i fulgore ei resplendere videbatur Mir. Wulfst. II 16 p. 173; alteram [sc. personam] ~i lumine micantem W. Cant. Mir. Thom. III 5; virgines et martyres mirabili scemate et ~i pulcritudine rutilantes Coggesh. Visio 36.  b magnis et ~ibus regionem praeliis gravissimis vastavit Byrht. HR 49; latrones circumquaque debacchantes nos persecuti sunt, et res nostras sepe rapientes, merore †irradicibili [MS: irredicibili, l. inedicibili] corda nostra †perfuderunt [MS: pertulerunt] Steph. Whitby 545b; calorem velut ignem ardentem sub pede sensit et ~e frigus ‥ precordia penetravit Ord. Vit. VIII 17 p. 372; contristabatur ‥ ~i pusillanimitate R. Cold. Osw. 10 p. 347.  c quumque ‥ feroces ‥ reges Scottorum atque Cumbriensium exsuperasset, constipatus postmodum agmine ~i resplenduit Byrht. V. Ecgwini 395; c1096 per ~e temporis spatium Cart. Heming 257.

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