- déaþberende
- adj fatal, deadly, death-bearing; 1. of things, (1) physical, deadly, pestilential; (1a) figurative; (2) moral or spiritual; þéo déaþberende uncyst; 2. of living creatures;
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
déaþberende
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deadly — O.E. deadlic mortal, subject to death, also causing death; see DEAD (Cf. dead) + LY (Cf. ly) (2). Meaning having the capacity to kill is from late 14c. (O.E. words for this included deaðbærlic, deaðberende) … Etymology dictionary
