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† swikel, a. Obs. Forms: 1 swicol, 2–4 swikel, 3 suykel, 3–4 suikel, 4 swikil(l, -yll, swykile, (sikil), 4–5 swykel. [OE. swicol, corresp. to OHG. pi-swichal ‘subdolus’, ON. svikall (MSw. swikul), f. swik-: see swike v. and -le.] Deceitful, treacherous, crafty.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 82 Se swicola Herodes. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 428 Næs heo swicol nanum þæra þe hyre to ðohte. c1175Lamb. Hom. 43 Heo wes..liȝere & swikel. a1225Ancr. R. 180 Inre vondunges..swikele þouhtes, þet þuncheð þauh gode. a1250Prov. ælfred 356 in O.E. Misc. 124 Mony mon haueþ swikelne muþ. c1300Havelok 1108 Ioie he made hire swiþe mikel, But neþeles he was ful swikel. a1340Hampole Psalter xlii. 1 Wickid is he þat does ill apertly, sikil, þat priuely synnes. a1400Prymer (1891) 34 A swykel tunge. a1400Siege Jerusalem (E.E.T.S.) 18/317 Many swykel at þe sweng to þe swerd ȝede. Hence † ˈswikeldom, † ˈswikelhede, † ˈswikelness, deceitfulness, treachery; † ˈswikelly adv., deceitfully, treacherously.
a1250Owl & Night. 162 (Cott.) Schamie þe for þin unrede, Vnwroȝen is þi *svikel-hede; Schild þine *swikeldom vram þe liȝte [Jesus MS. swikehede..swikedom].
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7332 Þo willam bastard hurde telle of haraldes suikelhede.
a1023Wulfstan Hom. vii. (1883) 55 Hy..lætað þæt to wærscype, þæt hy oðre maᵹan swa *swicollice þæcan. a1340Hampole Psalter v. 11 [9] With þair tonges swikilly þai wroght.
a1023Wulfstan Hom. vii. (1883) 55 Antecrist lærð unsoðfæstnysse and *swicolnesse. c1275in O.E. Misc. 143/88 Þer wurþ ioye & mury song, Wiþ-vte swikelnesse. |