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hand-preóst

  • noun [ masculine ]
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a priest at a person's hand (using the phrase as in ' they were first at the kyngis hond', 1 Chron. xviii. 17 (Wicklif), where the A. V. has 'chief about the king')
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  • Þrengde hé his handpreóstas and eác sume of his túnpreóstan ꝥ hí scoldan helpan þan feáwan munecan

    precepit capellanis clericis suis, ut essent cum monachis,

      Chr. 870; P. 284, 1.
  • Cf. hand-þegn, hand-gesella.
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  • hand-preóst, n.