lic

Meaning

1. dead body, corpse

   An. DCCXVI ⁊ on þām ilcan ġēare Ċeolrēd Miercna cyning forþferde, ⁊ his līċ resteþ on Licetfelda.

   Year 716 In this year Ceolred, king of Mercia, died, and his body rests in Litchfield.

   The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

2. body (living or dead)

   Hū, ne sæġde iċ ǣr þæt sē þe bær līċ ġefrēdan wolde, þæt hē hit sċolde mid barum handum ġefrēdan?

   Didn't I say before that if you want to feel someone's bare body, you have to feel it with your bare hands?

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

3. form

Declension