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scolu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
scolu, scól (these two forms may give the later shoal, school as col, cól give coal, cool), e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§366;
a school
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  • Scól

    scola,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 75, 27.

  • Scól scola, se ðe on scóle (sceóle, MS. U.) ys

    scolasticus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 5; Zup. 11, 13-15.

  • Ðý ilcan geáre forborn Ongolcynnes scolu,

      Chr. 816; Erl. 62, 7.

  • Constantinus hiene benǽmde ðære scole ðe hé on leornode,

      Ors. 6, 31; Swt. 284, 24.

  • His lic líþ on Angelcynnes scole,

      Chr. 874; Erl. 76, 26.

  • Of scole

    ex scole,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 31, 64 : 95, 14.

  • Hú ne eart ðú se mon ðe on mínre scole wǽre áféd and gelǽred,

      Bt. 3, 1; Fox 4, 19.

  • Eubolus underféng ðone cnapan tó lárlícre scole . . . On ðære ylcan scole wæs Iulianus,

      Homl. Skt. i. 3, 14-16.

  • Ic becom tó Cristes scole,

      2, 244.

  • Maria wunode on ealra ðæra apostola gýmene on ðære heofonlícan scole embe Godes ǽ smeágende,

      Homl. Th. i. 440, 8.

  • Sum leorningman on scole

    scholasticus quidam,

      Bd. 3, 13; S. 538, 18.

  • Ic (

    Ethelwulf

    ) on Róme Englisce scole gesette,
      Chart. Th. 116, 33.

  • Se (

    Marinus

    ) gefreóde Ongelcynnes scole be Ælfrédes béne West-Seaxna cyninges,
      Chr. 885; Erl. 84, 19.

  • Cildru on scole betǽcan,

      Lchdm. iii. 184, 27 : 188, 18.
a band or troop of people, a shoal, school (in
school of fishes)
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  • Him on healfa gehwone heofonengla þreát ymbútan faraþ, ælbeorhtra scolu,

      Exon. Th. 58, 2; Cri. 929.

  • Synfulra here, womfulra scolu,

      94, 5; Cri. 1535 : 98, 15; Cri. 1608 : 114, 19; Gú. 175.

  • Seó deóre scolu

    the heavenly host,

      235, 21; Ph. 235.

  • Árleásra sceolu,

      Elen. Kmbl. 2600; El. 1301 : 1523; El. 763.

  • Éce fýr wæs Satane and his gesíðum mid, deófle, gegearwad, and ðære deorcan scole,

      Exon. Th. 93, 9; Cri. 1523.

  • Ðæt gesǽlige weorud gesihþ ðæt fordóne, . . . byrnendra scole,

      77, 6; Cri. 1252.

  • Hé gesomnode miccle scole and wered his geþoftena,

      Guthl. 2; Gdwin. 14, 2.

  • Ðá wearð stearc storms gelác . . . út feor ádráf on Wendelsǽ wígendra scola,

      Met. 26, 31.
Etymology
[O. Sax. skola a band, troop : O. H. Ger. scuola schola : Icel. skóli a school. From Latin.]
Similar entries
v. geneát-, hand-, þegn-, þeóf- scolu.
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v.  sceolu scól.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “scolu.” 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/26962.

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