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bismer

  • noun [ neuter ]
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bismer, bismor, bysmer, bysmor; gen. bismeres, bysmres; n. [be, smeru fat, grease]
Filthiness, pollution, abomination, disgrace, infamy, mockery, reproach, contumely, blasphemy, calumny; ludibrium, pollutio, abominatio, infamia, opprobrium, contumelia, blasphemia, calumnia
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  • Hí amyrdon heora folc on bysmore

    they defiled their people with filthiness,

      Ælfc. T. 15, 21.

  • Seó stów gewearþ swíðe mǽre for Rómána bismere

    the place became famous for the disgrace of the Romans,

      Ors. 3, 8; Bos. 62, 44.

  • His mód wæs mid ðam bismre ahwæt

    his mind was whetted with that disgrace,

      Ors. 6, 30; Bos. 126, 17.

  • Hí mængdon eced and geallan togædere and hit, on his bismer, Criste gebudon

    they mingled vinegar and gall together, and offered it to Christ, in mockery of him,

      L. Edg. C. 39; Th. ii. 252, 17.

  • Ðú hí, Drihten, dést deópe to bysmre

    tu, Domine, deridebis eos,

      Ps. Th. 58, 8.

  • He hálge láre brygdeþ on bysmer

    he turneth holy lore into mockery,

      Exon. 117 a; Th. 449, 14; Dóm. 71.

  • Hí gefremedan óðer bysmer

    they made another reproach;

    irritaverunt eum,
      Ps. Th. 105, 25: 106, 10.

  • Dracan ðú ðysne geheowadest, héte syððan him bysmere bráde healdan

    draco iste, quem formasti ad illudendum ei,

      Ps. Th. 103, 25.

  • Ðæt he dóþ to bysmore ðínum feóndum

    he makes that for a reproach to thine enemies,

      8, 3.

  • Ge gehýrdon his bysmer

    audistis blasphemiam,

      Mk. Bos. 14, 64.

  • Ðæt ðú mǽge þolie bysmor on ǽlcne tíman

    ut omni tempore calumniam sustineas,

      Deut. 28, 29.
Etymology
[O. Sax. bismer, n. opprobrium.]
Derived forms
DER. bismer-full, -leás, -leóþ, -líc, -líce, -nes, -spræc, -sprecan, -word: bismerian, ge-: bismerung: bismeriend.
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v.  bysmer bismor bysmer bysmor.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bismer.” 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/4477.

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