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burh-waru

  • noun [ feminine ]
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burh-waru, burg-waru; gen. dat. e; acc. e, u; f.
The inhabitants of a city considered as a community, the whole body of citizens; civitas, civitatis populus
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  • Ǽlc burhwaru wæs búgende to him

    non fuit civitas quœ se traderet illis,

      Jos. 11. 19.
  • Wearþ eall seó burhwaru onstyred

    commota est universa civitas,

      Mt. Bos. 21, 10: Chr. 1013; Th. 271, 28, col. 1.
  • Wæs mycel menegu ðære burhware mid hyre

    erat turba civitatis multa cum illa,

      Lk. Bos. 7, 12.
  • Ic gefrægn leóde tosomne burgwaru bannan

    I learnt that the people, the body of citizens, were summoned together,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2189; An. 1096.
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v.  burg-waru buruh-waru land-waru.
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