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From dí- +‎ ceilid.

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do·ceil (prototonic ·dichil, verbal noun díchleth or díchelt)

  1. to hide, to conceal
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56c11
      .i. amal is i mmedon lathi is relem cech rét is do ducad són du thaidbsin nad·ndichil ní ar Dia i ngnimaib cech óin.
      As it is noon [lit. midday] that everything is most clearly visible, it is for this [reason] that it was brought forward, to show that nothing hides from God in the deeds of everyone.
    • Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §84
      Trí cáin do·celat éitchi: sobés la anricht, áne la dóer, ecna la dodelb.
      Three fair things that hide ugliness: good manners for the ill-favored, skill in a serf, [and] wisdom in the misshapen.

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