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adchess

adchess

Old Irish

Verb

ad·chess

  1. Lenited form of ad·cess.
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23c11:
      .i. ished inso sís rochlos et adchess innabésaib et agnímaib
      i.e. this below is what was heard and seen in his morals and deeds

Usage notes

Generally used in a leniting relative clause.