Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
idle .
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I wish if i could get my mail and send me ur email address, then I send my email to you. you are my idel favorts hero Bill gate
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We implore you to send us assistance to eradicate this terrible blasphemy, and we inform all true knights in your domain that if they hunger to smite the infidel, which they can no longer do on crusade in the Holy Land, they must come to Marienburg, where we continue the struggle against the inf idel and where Christians can once more cross swords with the followers of Muhammad. '
Poland Michener, James 1983
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Wéé bie ye idel {;} and hie answerden {;} and seyde. lord {;} for we ` ne´ fonden te dai þat us herde.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Fole idel word ich habbe iq {u} eðen soððen ich speke kuðe. fole ȝunge dede idon {;} þe me of {} þinchet nuðe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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++Þe prude beoð his bem {er} es · draheð wind inward wið worltlich hereword · ⁊ eft wið idel ȝelp puffeð hit ut ward as þe bemeres doð · makieð noise ⁊ lud dream to schawin hare orhel · ah ȝef ha wel þohten of godes bemeres of þe englene bemen þe schulen o fowr half þe world biuore þe grurefule dom grisliche blawen ·
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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+A+s sein Jerome leareð · ne beo ȝe neauer longe ne lihtliche of sum {} þing allunges idel · for anan rihtes þe feond beot hire his werc þe i godes werc ne swinkeð · ⁊ tuteleð anan toward hire. foR hwil he sið hire bisi {;} he þencheð þus · for nawt ich schulde nu cume neh hire {;} ne mei ha nawt iȝemen to lustni {90} mi lare.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Marcatte. so he fond werkmen þet were idel. þo seyde he to hem.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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[++Þ] E p {ru} de beod his bemeres · Drahed wind inward · of worldlich {35} hereword · ⁊ eft wid idel ige ` l´p puffed hit utward · as þe bemares dod.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Fele idel word ich habbe ispeken seðen ich speken cuðe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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As he had none of the qualities of a great commander, a funeral oration pronounced in his honor, before a few soldiers, who had escaped from the fever and the sword, was a mere harmonious assemblage of idel words.
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