healic

From hēah +‎ -līċ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxæ͜ɑː.liːt͡ʃ/, [ˈhæ͜ɑː.liːt͡ʃ]

hēalīċ (comparative hēalīcra, superlative hēalīcost)

1. high, elevated, lofty
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Eft æt sumum sæle ætslād sē hālga wer on ðām hēalīcum gradum æt þām hālgum wēofode, swā þæt hē fornēan eal wearð tōcwȳsed; ac on þǣre nihte hine ġelācnode God, ðurh his hālgan enġel, tō ansundre hǣle.

     Also, at a certain hall, the holy man slipped on the high steps at the holy altar, so that almost his whole body became bruised; but in the night, God restored him to full health through his holy angel.

2. proud, very great, distinguished

• hēah

• nīþerlīċ

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “heálíc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.