, _to esteem, to make
prominent
with praise_: III.
Beowulf
, _terrible, bringing terror_: of Grendel's head, 1650; of
the beginning of the fight with the drake, 2310; of the drake, 2826.
egle, adj.
, _causing aversion, hideous_: nom.
pl.
neut.
, or, more probably,
perhaps, adverbial, egle (MS.
egl), 988.
egsian (denominative from egesa), w.
v.
, _to have terror, distress_: pret.
(as pluperf.
) egsode eorl(?
), 6.
ehtian, w.
v.
, _to esteem, to make
prominent
with praise_: III.
pl.
pres.
þæt þē .
.
.
weras ehtigað, _that thee men shall esteem, praise_, 1223.
elde (_those who generate_, cf.
O.
N.
al-a, generare), st.
m.
only in the
pl.
, _men_: dat.
pl.
eldum, 2215; mid eldum, _among men_, 2612.
