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wíglere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wíglere, (wiglere ?), weohlere, es; m.
A diviner, soothsayer, augur, sorcerer
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  • Wíglere

    augur

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 74, 37.

  • Ðes and ðeós wiglere

    hic et haec augur

    ,
      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 22 ; Zup. 49, 2.

  • Nú cwyð sum wíglere, ðæt wiccan oft secgaþ swá swá hit ágǽð mid ððum ðincge,

      Homl. Skt. i. 17, 108.

  • On gellcnysse wígleres and rǽdendes (

    arioli et coniectoris

    ),
      Scint. 75, 12.

  • Wýgleras

    auspices

    ,
      Germ. 398, 79.

  • Be wiccum, wíglerum, etc. Gif wiccan oððe wígleras, oþþe morðwyrhtan . . . ,

      L. E. G. II; Th. i. 172, 20: L. C. S. 4 ; Th. i. 378, 7.

  • Wiccan oþþe wígleras, scíncræftigan . . . ,

      L. Eth. vi. 7; Th. i. 316, 20.

  • Wiccan and wígleras (wígeleras,

    v. l.

    ).
      Wulfst. 27, I.
    Drýmen, and wiccan and óðre wígeleras beóð tó helle bescofene for heora scíncræftum, Homl. Th. ii. 330, 28.

  • Wígulera

    magorum, hariolorum

    ,
      Hpt. Gl. 502, 51.

  • Tunglera ł wí[g]lera Chaldaeorum ... wíhlera (?) printed wineena

    hariolorum

    ,
      483, 5-10.

  • Ðonne man tó wiccan and tó wígleran tilunge séce æt ǽnigre neóde,

      Wulfst. 171, II. Hé
    wiccan fordyde, and wígleras áfiígde, and drýcræft tówearp, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 464.
Etymology
[Wielare augur. Wrt. Voc. i. 89, 20. þe wielare (the devil) makeð a swote smel cumen, ase þauh hit were of heouene, A. R. 106, 2. M. Du. wijcheler.]
Similar entries
v. fugel-, gebyrd-, wígbed-wíglere (-weohlere), and next word.
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v.  weohlere.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wíglere.” 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/35672.

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