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cild

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Wright's OE grammar
§96; §311; §420; §562;
Dele in bracket all foreign forms but the Gothic, and add: gen. pl. cilda, cildra; dat. pl. cildum, cildrum.
a child
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  • Eahtawintre cild . . . ðrywintre cild,

      Hml. Th. ii. 134, 3, 7.
  • Féng his bearn tó cyneríce, cild unweaxen,

      Chr. 975; P. 120, 7.
  • Be fundenes cildes fóstre,

      Ll. Th. i. 118, 17.
  • In cildes híw,

      Cri. 725.
  • Heó wearð mid cilde,

      Hml. Th. i. 24, 26.
  • Þá cild on Bethlem ofslægene wǽrun,

      Chr. 2; P. 2, 29.
  • Ðá cild rídaþ on heora stafum and manigfealdne plegan plegiaþ,

      Bt. 36, 5; F. 180, 9.
  • Gé sint giet cilderu,

      Past. 459, 17.
  • Cildra

    pueri,

      R. Ben. I. 60, 16.
  • Iung cildra

    lactantes, i. infantes,

      An. Ox. 2591.
  • Cildas (cild, R.)

    parvoli,

      Mt. L. 19, 13.
  • Ofer hiora dei, wífes and cilda,

      C. D. i. 316, 16.
  • Of cilda (cildra, R.,

    infantium

    ) múeð,
      Mt. 21, 16: Bl. H. 71, 17.
  • Hé ealra ðǽra cildra plegan gestilde,

      Hml. Th. ii. 134, 17.
  • Ic Eádwine munek, cildre meistre,

      Cht. Th. 321, 26.
  • Hé unborenum cildum líf sylð,

      Hml. S. 23, 429.
  • Gesceád wexð on cildrum,

      1, 110.
  • Cild

    parvulos,

      Ps. Srt. 114, 6.
  • Cild (cildo, L., cild. R.)

    infantes,

      Lk. 18, 15.
as a title of dignity
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  • Eádríc cild, Chr. 1067; P. 200, 35 (see note, vol. ii. p. 259). Fór Eádgar cild (

    Edgar Atheling

    ) út . . . and se cyng Melcolm genam þes cildes swuster tó wífe,
      P. 201, 1-3.
  • Ælfsige cild,

      C. D. iv. 10, 29.
  • Brihtríc forwrégde Wulfnóð cild þone Suðseaxscian,

      Chr. 1009; P. 138, 17.
  • v. cniht-, cradol-, fóster-, leornung-, munuc-, wǽpned-, wíf-cild, and two following words.
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