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BRYCE

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
BRYCE, brice, es; m. [brycst, bricst, pres. of brúcan to use, enjoy]
Wright's OE grammar
§562;
Use, service, the occupation or exercise of a thing, profit, advantage, fruit; usus, ministerium, commodum
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  • Gif ðæt ówiht bryce wæs if that was any use; si hoc aliquid prodesset, Bd. 5, 14; S. 634, 8, note. Láfe on hwylc hugu fatu gehiwade wǽron mennisces brýces

    recisuræ in vasa quælibet humani usus formarentur,

      3, 22; S. 552, 14.

  • Brice oððe gewuna

    usus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 11; Som. 15, 16.

  • Ealle werþeóde lifgaþ bí ðám lissum, ðe éce Dryhten gesette sínum bearnum to brice

    all tribes of men live by the blessings, which the eternal Lord bestowed on his children for their use,

      Exon. 54 b; Th. 193, 3; Az. 116.

  • We sceoldon ða hwílendlícan þing to úrum bricum habban

    we should have transitory things for our use,

      Homl. Th. ii. 460, 28.

  • God híg gesceóp eallum mannum to brice

    quæ creavit Deus in ministerium cunctis gentibus,

      Deut. 4, 19.

  • Bryce

    commodum,

      Cot. 59.

  • Lǽnes landes bryce

    fructws,

      Cot. 92.
  • [Plat, bruuk: Dut. ge-bruik, n: Kil. bruyk: Ger. brauch, m: O. H. Ger. brúh, m: Dan. brug, c: Swed. bruk, n: O. Nrs. brúk, n. usus, mos, Rask Hald.]
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v.  brice bríce bróce.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “BRYCE.” 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/5263.

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