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leód-scipe

  • noun [ masculine ]
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leód-scipe, es; m.
A people, nation, country occupied by a people
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  • Ðe ðes leódscype longe bieode

    whom this people have long worshipped,

    • Exon. 68 b
    • ;
    • Th. 255, 2
    • ;
    • Jul. 208
    • .
  • Of ðam leódscipe ðe is Siria geháten

    from the country that is called Syria,

    • Homl. Th. i. 400, 7
    • :
    • Exon. 64 a
    • ;
    • Th. 236, 30
    • ;
    • Ph. 582
    • .
  • Eallurn his leódscipe tó þearfe

    for the behoof of all his people,

    • L. Edg. pref
    • ;
    • Th. i. 262, 4
    • :
    • L. Eth. ii. 1
    • ;
    • Th. i. 284, 10
    • .
  • Woruldrihta ic wille ðæt standan on ǽlcum leódscipe

    [English and Danish and British, see the rest of the section],

    • L. Edg. S. 2
    • ;
    • Th. i. 272, 2
    • 3:
    • Beo. Th. 4400
    • ;
    • B. 2197
    • .
  • On ðam leódscipe

    [the Greeks],

    • Bt. Met. Fox 30, 3
    • ;
    • Met. 30, 2
    • .
  • Hwæt tó bóte mihte æt ðæm fǽrcwealme ðe his leódscipe swýðe drehte,

    • L. Edg. S. 1
    • ;
    • Th. i. 270, 10
    • :
    • Chr. 1014
    • ;
    • Erl. 150, 9
    • :
    • Beo. Th. 5495
    • ;
    • B. 2751
    • :
    • Bt. Met. Fox 1, 135
    • ;
    • Met. 1, 68
    • .
  • Ðrý leódscipas sind gehátene India,

    • Homl. Th. i. 454, 11,
  • Hí cyning habban woldon swá swá óðre leódscipas hæfdon

    they wanted to have a king, as other nations had,

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 6, 45
    • .
  • Tó ðám leódscipum ðe tó geleáfan bugon,

    • 14, 3
    • .
  • Ða cynegas ðe eardodon on ðám leódscipum

    reges Amorrhæorum et Chanaan,

    • Jos. 5, 1.
  • Bodigende geleáfan ðám leódscipum ðe sind gecwedene Galatia, Cappadocia, Bithinia, Asia, Italia,

    • Homl. Th. i. 370, 26
    • :
    • L. I. P. 23
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 334, 28
    • .
  • Hé wið feó sealdon wíde intó leódscipas

    sold them into distant countries,

    • Blickl. Homl. 79, 23
    • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. liud-skepi a people
:
O. H. Ger. liut-scaf.
]
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