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† difficul, a. Obs.
Also 5 deffykel, 6 difficull.
[? a. OldLat. difficul (cited by Nonius from Varro): the Eng. word may however have been deduced from difficul-ty, or pronounced after the latter, instead of with sibilant c as in difficile.]
= next. Hence † difficully adv. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 99 Olde woundys which þat beþ diffykel to be consowdyde. 1552Huloet, Difficull reason, obscuratio, obscurum argumentum. Diffuse or difficull, obscurus. Ibid., Difficullye, difficile. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 112 Certain..words..accounted the difficulst in all the whole Castilian language. |