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portic

  • noun [ masculine ]
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portic, es ; m.
a porch, covered entrance, portico
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  • Portic

    porticus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 11 ; Som. 15, 22 : Wrt. Voc. i. 58, 2.

  • Se mere hæfþ fíf porticas. On ðám porticon læg mycel menigeo geádludra,

      Jn. Skt. 5, 2-3.
an enclosed place, a place roofed in
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  • Sinewealt cleofa vel portic absida, lytle porticas

    cancelli,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 58, 34, 37.

  • Ic Eádwine munek læi innan mínan portice (

    cell

    ) anbútan nóntíde,
      Chart. Th. 321, 31.

  • Portic

    abscidam (absidam),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 97, 45.
part of a church, porch, vestibule; also an arched recess. '
Porticus aedis sacrae propylaeum in porticus formam exstructum, in quo consistebant Catechumeni et Poenitentes : improprie pro sanctuarium, seu orientalis ecclesiae pars in qua majus altare erigi solet,' Du Cange
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  • Hálig portic

    sanctuarium,

      Ps. Surt. 72, 17 : 73. 7 : 82, 13.

  • Of ðæs portices dura þærsc-wolde wæs gesýne ðæt ða swaðo wǽron ǽrest útwearde ongunnen ... Ðeós circe mid ðýs portice mihte húhwego fíf hund manna befón,

      Blickl. Homl. 207, 10-14.

  • His líchaman Eorcenwald on portice (

    in porticu

    ) his cyrcan sumre geheóld ... Ðá dydon hí his líchaman up of ðam portice and on cyrcan neáh weofode byrgan wolde,
      Bd. 3, 19 ; S. 550, 5-10.

  • Wæs hé bebyriged on Sce Paules portice (

    porticu

    ), se is on Sce Andreas cyricean,
      5, 23; S. 645, 18.

  • His líchoma on ðære cyricean norþportice (

    porticu aquilonali

    ) wæs bebyriged; in ðam eác swylce ealra ðæra æfter-fylgendra ærcebiscopa líchoman syndon bebyrged bútan twegra ; heora líchaman sindon on ðære cyricean sylfre gesette, forðan ðe on ðone fore-cwedenan portic má ne mihte,
      2, 3; S. 504, 34-38.

  • Ðæt hé wíbedas sette and porticas worhte and tódǽlde binnan ðære cyricean weallum

    ut poneret altaria, distinctis porticibus intra muros ecclesiae,

      5, 20; S. 641, 42.

  • Synd þrý porticas emb ða ciricean útan geworhte, and ða ealle fægere ufan oferworhte and oferhrýfde,

      Blickl. Homl. 125, 23.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. pforzih porticus, vestibulum, peribolus, atrium.]
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v. húsel-, norþ-, súþ-portic.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “portic.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/25320.

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