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ceác
/tʃea:k /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
Gender: Masculine
Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
ceác
, es; m. A pitcher, jug, basin, laver; urceus, caucus = καῦκος , luter = λουτήρ :-- Ceác urceus, Wrt. Voc. 85, 67: Ælfc. Gl. 26; Som. 60, 80; Wrt. Voc. 25, 20. Calica fyrmþa and ceáca baptismata calicum et urceorum, Mk. Bos. 7, 4, 8. Ðæt he hét ðǽr ǽrene ceácas onhón ut ibi æreos caucos suspendi juberet, Bd. 2, 16; S. 520, 6. Befóran ðæm temple stód ǽren ceác, onuppan twelf ǽrenum oxum. . . Se ceác wæs swá micel ðæt he oferhelede ða oxan ealle, búton ða heáfudu totodon út a brazen laver stood before the temple, upon twelve brazen oxen. . . The laver was so large that it covered the oxen entirely, save that the heads projected out, Past. 16, 5; Hat. MS. 21b, 3, 4. On ðæm ceáce in the laver, 16, 5; Cot. MS.
Linked entries (variants, parts of a paradigm or derived forms):
ceác-full
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céc
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Possibly connected entries from the Supplement:

ceác
. Add :-- Ceác antulum, Wrt. Voc. i. 291, 1: 285, 13: ii. 8, 34: urna, An. Ox. 4322. Ágrafen ceác expolita pelvis. Germ. 403, 16. Æren fæt, læfel oþþe céc, Lch. iii. 292, 9. On ceáce (concha) fét ðweánde, Angl. xiii. 415, 716. Ðone ceák (luterem) . . . on ðǽm ceáke, Past. 105, 17, 13. Hé (David) genam his (Saul's) ceác (scyphum aquae, 1 Sam. 26, 11), Ps. Th. 35, arg. Se gelýfeda cempa bróhte ceác fulne wæteres fulluhtes biddende, Hml. Th. i. 428, 1. Gedó on ceác fulne wínes (cf. ceác-full), Lch. ii. 30, 23. [Cf. (?) N.
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