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of food (lit. or fig.)
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  • Éstmet[tas]

    grata fercula,

    • An. Ox. 56, 77
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  • Éstmetta

    ferculorum,

    • 3169.

  • Hire þénian of his ágenum þénungum and his éstmetum

    dare illi de convivio suo,

    • Hml. A. 110, 269.

  • Éstmettas

    (delicias)

    mon ne sceal lufian, ac fæsten mon sceal lufian,

    • R. Ben. 16, 23.

  • Lazarus geseah ðone rícan brúcan his éstmettas

    (fare sumptuously),

    • Hml. Th. i. 330, 15.

  • Éstmettas þæs écan gereordes,

    • ii. 372, 17.
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  • 'Geoffra ðíne lác úrum godum, oððe ðú bist mid eallum ðisum pínungtólum getintregod. ' Se diácon cwæð: ' Þás éstmettas ic symle gewilnode,'

    • Hml. Th. i. 424, 23.
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He mid estmeten his innað ne gefyllde, Angl. iii. 107, 55.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ést-mete.” 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/44252.

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