| 释义 |
▪ I. adle
obs. or dial. form of addle.
▪ II. † ˈadle Obs.
Forms: 1 ádl. North. 3 adle.
[from same root as ad burning, hence orig. inflammation, fever. It does not seem to have survived the 12th c. in southern Eng., where it would have become odle. Not connected with addle in addle-egg.]
Sickness, disease.
c1000Ags. Gospels Matt. x. 1 And hældun ádle, and ælce untrumnysse. c1160Hatt. Gosp. ibid., And helden adle, & ælche untrumnysse. c1200Ormulum 4803 Onn all hiss bodiᵹ her & tær Þurrh an full atell adle. |