eldertongue

Old English · adverb

endebyrdlice

Part of speech
adverb

Meaning

  1. orderly

    Swīðe endebyrdlīce þū hyt recst, ac ic þē wille secgan ġēt þēah hwæs [ic] þǣr fæstlīce ġelȳfe [and] ymb hwæt ic þǣr ġȳt twēoge.

    Very orderly thou dost explain it, but I will yet say to thee what I firmly believe, and about what I yet doubt.

    late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
  2. ordinal

Etymology

From either endebyrd + -līċe or endebyrdlīċ + -e.

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