† swikel, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 swicol, 2–4 swikel, 3 suykel, 3–4 suikel, 4 swikil(l, -yll, swykile, (sikil), 4–5 swykel.
[OE. swicol, corresp. to OHG. pi-swichal ‘subdolus’, ON. svikall (MSw. swikul), f. swik-: see swike v. and -le.]
Deceitful, treacherous, crafty.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 82 Se swicola Herodes. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 428 Næs heo swicol nanum þæra þe hyre to ðohte. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 43 Heo wes..liȝere & swikel. a 1225 Ancr. R. 180 Inre vondunges..swikele þouhtes, þet þuncheð þauh gode. a 1250 Prov. ælfred 356 in O.E. Misc. 124 Mony mon haueþ swikelne muþ. c 1300 Havelok 1108 Ioie he made hire swiþe mikel, But neþeles he was ful swikel. a 1340 Hampole Psalter xlii. 1 Wickid is he þat does ill apertly, sikil, þat priuely synnes. a 1400 Prymer (1891) 34 A swykel tunge. a 1400 Siege Jerusalem (E.E.T.S.) 18/317 Many swykel at þe sweng to þe swerd ȝede. |
Hence
† ˈswikeldom,
† ˈswikelhede,
† ˈswikelness, deceitfulness, treachery;
† ˈswikelly adv., deceitfully, treacherously.
| a 1250 Owl & Night. 162 (Cott.) Schamie þe for þin unrede, Vnwroȝen is þi *svikel-hede; Schild þine *swikeldom vram þe liȝte [Jesus MS. swikehede..swikedom]. |
| 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7332 Þo willam bastard hurde telle of haraldes suikelhede. |
| a 1023 Wulfstan Hom. vii. (1883) 55 Hy..lætað þæt to wærscype, þæt hy oðre maᵹan swa *swicollice þæcan. a 1340 Hampole Psalter v. 11 [9] With þair tonges swikilly þai wroght. |
| a 1023 Wulfstan Hom. vii. (1883) 55 Antecrist lærð unsoðfæstnysse and *swicolnesse. c 1275 in O.E. Misc. 143/88 Þer wurþ ioye & mury song, Wiþ-vte swikelnesse. |