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rǽd-bana

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
rǽd-bana, an; m.
One who contrives a person's death, but is not the actual perpetrator
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  • Gif man secge ðæt hé wǽre dǽdbana oððe rǽdbana

    if he be said to be the actual perpetrator of homicide, or the deviser of it,

      L. Eth. ix. 23; Th. i. 344, 26.
  • Cf. Qui ad occidendum aliquem innoxium redbana vel dedbana fuerit,

      L. H. I. 85, 3; Th. i. 592, 13.
Etymology
[Icel. ráð-bani : see also bana-ráð the planning a person's death; ráða einum bana to plot a person's death. v. Grmm. R. A. 626.]
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  • rǽd-bana, n.