Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

ceaster

  • noun [ feminineneuter ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
ceaster, cæster, cester; ceastre; ceastre, ceaster, ceastra; f. The names of places ending in caster and -chester were probably sites of a castrum
Wright's OE grammar
§51; §72; §168; §179; §183; §370;
a fortress, built by the Romans; the Saxon word is burh, generally f. but sometimes n. vide
  • Gen. 11, 4, 5
  • .
A city, fort, castle, town; urbs, civitas, castellum
Show examples
  • Ne mæg seó ceaster beon behýd

    non potest civitas abscondi,

    • Mt. Bos. 5, 14
    • .
  • On ðære heán ceastre

    in the high city,

    • Bt. 39, 5
    • ;
    • Fox. 218, 18
    • .
  • Ðá cómon ða weardas on ða ceastre

    then the keepers came into the city,

    • Mt. Bos. 28, 11
    • .
  • Ðú in ða ceastre gong

    go thou into the city,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1878
    • ;
    • An. 941
    • .
  • Ælla and Cissa ymbsǽton ceaster

    Ella and Cissa besieged the city,

    • Chr. 491
    • ;
    • Erl. 15, 6
    • .
  • Se Hǽlend ymbfór ealle burga and ceastra

    circuibat Iesus omnes civitates et castella,

    • Mt. Bos. 9, 35
    • .
Grammar
ceaster, ceaster; ceastres; n.
A city, etc: it is thus declined in the termination of Exan-cester, -ceaster
Show examples
  • Ymsǽton Exancester

    besieged Exeter,

    • Chr. 894
    • ;
    • Erl. 91, 9
    • ;
    • Th. 166, 30, col. 1.
  • Ymbsǽton Exanceaster,

    • Th. 167, 26, col. l, 2
    • .
  • Ðá wende he hine west wið Exanceastres

    then he turned west towards Exeter [versus Exanceaster],

    • Chr. 894
    • ;
    • Erl. 91, 10
    • ;
    • Th. 166, 31, col. 1
    • ;
    • 29, col. 2
    • ;
    • 167, 28, col. 1, col. 2
    • .
  • Se cyning hine west wende mid ðære fierde wið Exancestres

    the king turned west with the army towards Exeter,

      168, 26, col. 1; 24, col. 2; 169, 21, col. 1; 18, col. 2.
the name of a particular place, as CHESTER, CAISTOR, CASTOR, the city; hæc civitas
Show examples
  • He him sende scipon æfter, and Hugo eorl of Ceastre

    he sent ships after him, and Hugh earl of Chester,

    • Chr. 1094
    • ;
    • Erl. 230, 28: 1120
    • ;
    • Erl. 248, 8
    • .
Linked entries
v.  cæster Exan ceaster cester.
Full form

Word-wheel

  • ceaster, n.