leger
- noun [ neuter ]
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Hys spéda hý forspendaþ mid ðan langan legere ðæs deádan mannes inne
they squander his wealth with the long lying of the dead man in the house,
- Ors. 1, 1 ;
- Swt. 21, 9 .
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Nis ðǽr hungor ne þurst ne slǽp ne swár leger
there is neither hunger nor thirst nor sleep nor grievous sickness,
- Exon. 32 a ;
- Th. 101, 21 ;
- Cri. 1662 :
- 56 b ;
- Th. 201, 15 ;
- Ph. 56 .
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On ðam sixtan dæge his legeres
on the sixth day of his illness,
- Homl. Th. ii. 186, 28 .
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Mid langre ádle laman legeres swíðe gehefigod
longo paralysis morbo gravatam,
- Bd. 3, 9 ;
- S. 534, 6 .
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Moyses and Aaron ge-endodon heora líf swáðeáh búton legere
Moses and Aaron ended their lives, yet without sickness,
- Homl. Th. ii. 212, 13 .
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Se preóst sceal smyrigan ða seócan symble on legere
the priest must always anoint the sick in ill- ness,
- L. Ælfc. C. 32 ;
- Th. ii. 354, 14 .
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Tó hæbbenne and tó syllanne for lífe and for legere
to have and to give during life and at death,
- Chart. Th. 208, 3 .
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Ðá cwæþ se cyng ðæt mihte beón geboden him wið clǽnum legere
then the king said, the offer might have been made to him, if the death had been by fair means
[it was by drowning],- 31.
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Hálig leger [legerstów (?)]
cimiterium,
- Ælfc. Gl. 49 ;
- Som. 65, 74 ;
- Wrt. Voc. 34, 9 .
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Þolige hé clǽnes legeres and Godes mildse
let him forfeit a hallowed grave and God's mercy,
- L. N. P. L. 62, 63 ;
- Th. ii. 300, 19, 22 :
- Wulfst. 39, 19 .
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Wé lǽraþ ðæt man innan circan ǽnigne man ne birige búton ... hé sí ðæs legeres wyrðe
we enjoin that no man be buried within a church, unless he be worthy of such a place of burial,
- L. Edg. C. 29 ;
- Th. ii. 250, 17 .
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On gehálgodan legere licgan
to be buried in consecrated ground,
- 22 ;
- Th. ii. 248, 20 .
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Ge on lífe ge on legere
both alive and in the grave,
- L. Eth. v. 9 ;
- Th. i. 306, 22 :
- vi. 5 ;
- Th. i. 316, 14 :
- ix. 28 ;
- Th. i. 346, 19 .
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Unsac hé wæs on lífe beó on legere swá swá hé móte,
- i. 184, 13 ;
- Lchdm. iii. 288, 6 .
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Líchoman, se ðe on legre sceal weorþan wyrme tó hróðor,
- Exon. 71 b ;
- Th. 267, 15 ;
- Jul. 415 .
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Be ðære róde ðe ǽr in legere wæs lange bedyrned
[of the cross that had been buried ],
- Elen. Kmbl. 1200 ;
- E1. 602 :
- 1442 ;
- El. 723 .
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Líc legere fæst,
- 1762 ;
- El. 883.
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Se wæs fíftiges fótgemearces lang on legere
he was fifty feet long in the place where he lay,
- Beo. Th. 6078 ;
- B. 3043 .
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Leger ðis
lectum istum,
- Rtl. 111, 24 .
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On legir
in lectum,
- 181, 7 .
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Frýnd leger weardiaþ ðonne ic on úhtan ána gonge
my friends rest in their couches, when ere the dawn I go solitary,
- Exon 115 b ;
- Th. 443, 23 ;
- Kl. 34 .
Bosworth, Joseph. “leger.” 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/21338.
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