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To be dead was anciently used in the sense “to die”, and later in that of “to have died”.

2. Bereft of sensation or vitality; benumbed, insensible.

a) of parts of the body. (1225)

b) of persons: Deathlike, insensible, in a swoon. (1369)

DEAD adv. Forms : see DEAD adj.

1. In a manner or to degree characteristic of or suggesting death; with extreme inactivity, stillness etc.; utterly, profoundly, absolutely ( as dead asleep, dead calm); to extremity, “to death” (as dead run, dead tired)

Often connected with the qualified word by a hyphen, and thus passing into combinations. (1393)

b) With absolute or abrupt cessation of motion (or speech). (1856)

2. Hence more generally: Utterly, entirely, absolutely, quite.(1589)

3. Directly, straight. (“Dead against”). (1800)

DEADLY adj.

1 - deadlic, 3 daedlich, diadlich, 3 - 4 deadlich, 3 - 5 dedlich, - lych, dedelik(e, 4 dedli, dedeli, dyadlich, dyeadlich, 4 - 5 deedli, 4 - 6 dedly, dedely, 5 deadlike, dedlyke, 5 - 6 deedly, 6 deadlie, - lye, deedely, dedlie, 6 - 7 Sc. deidly, deidlie, 5 - deadly

1. † Subject to death, mortal. (1000)

b) †A mortal; usually as pl. Mortals, human being. (1450)

2. † In danger of death, like to die. (1300)

b) †Of or belonging to death. (1470)

3. Causing death or fatal injury, mortal, fatal. (893)

b) As a quality of things: Having the property or capacity of causing death or fatal injury; poisonous, venomous, pestilential. (1380)

DEADLY adv.

1 deadlice, 3 -4 deadliche, 4 - dyadliche, dedlyk, 4 - 6 dedely, 5 dedly, 6 - deedly, 7 deadlie, 6 - deadly

1. †In a way that causes death, mortally, fatally, to death. (1050)

b) †in a way that entails spiritual death

2. † Implacably, mortally; to the death. (1330)

3. In a manner suggesting or resembling death, as if dead, without animation. (1300)

4. To a fatal or extreme degree; “mortally”, “to death”; extremely, excessively. colloq. (1300)

DEAR Adjective

1 diore, 2 - 3 deore, 2 daere, 3 - 6 dere, 4 - 5 der, 4 - 7 deere, 5 -7 deir, 6 - 7 deare, 6 - dear

I of persons

1 glorious, noble, honorable, worthy [1000]