mightsome

mightsome
[mightsome, v., mightsomnes
which render L. abundare, abundantia in the Early English Psalter, presumably originated from misreading of early ME. *inihtsumien, -sumnis:—OE. ᵹenyhtsumian, -sumnis, these being the words used in the same passages in the Vespasian Psalter.
In some of the passages the Surtees editor prints nuhtsom, which is impossible in a northern text.
a 1300 E.E. Psalter xxix. 7, xlix. 20, lxiv. 14, lxxii. 12, lxxvii. 38.]

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  • mightsome — v. n. == be powerful. pret. ‘mightsomed.’ Ps. lxxvii. 38. part. ‘mightsomand.’ Ps. lxxii. 12 …   Oldest English Words

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