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gleó-man

  • noun [ masculine ]
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gleó-man, glí-man, glii-man, gliig-man, glig-man, -mann, es; m.
A glee-man, musician, minstrel, jester, player, buffoon; musicus, cantor, joculator, histrio, scurra, mimus, pantomimus
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  • Leóþ wæs asungen, gleómannes gyd

    the lay was sung, the gleeman's song,

    • Beo. Th. 2324
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    • B. 1160
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  • Wera gehwylcum wíslícu word gerísaþ, gleómen gied

    to every man wise words are fitting, song to the gleeman,

    • Exon. 91 b
    • ;
    • Th. 344, 1
    • ;
    • Gn. Ex. 167
    • :
    • 87 a
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    • Th. 326, 29
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    • Wíd. 136
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  • Gligman

    mimus, jocista, scurra, pantomimus,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 61
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    • Som. 68, 59, 60
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    • Wrt. Voc. 39, 42, 43
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  • Gligman

    mimus vel scurra

      ,
    • 73, 69
    :

    sophista, parasitus

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    • Hpt. Gl. 406, 483, 504
    :

    seductor

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    • Gl. Prud.
  • Gif preóst glíman wurþe

    if a priest become a gleeman,

    • L. N. P. L. 41
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 296, 11
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  • Monige welige menn fédaþ yfle gliigmen [gliimen, Cot. MS.]

    nonnulli divites nutriunt histriones,

    • Past. 44, 6
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    • Swt. 327, 7
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    • Hat. MS. See Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons, Bk. 7, c. 7
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v.  glí-man.
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