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fóre-beácen

  • noun [ neuter ]
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fóre-beácen, -beácn, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§572;
A fore-token, prodigy, wonder; prodĭgium, portentum, ostentum
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  • Ic eom swá fórebeácen folce manegum

    tamquam prodĭgium factus sum multis,

    • Ps. Th. 70, 6.
  • fórebeácna

    prodĭgiōrum

    • 104, 23.
  • He sigetácen sende manegum, fórebeácn feala folce Ægipta

    mīsit signa et prodĭgia in mĕdio Ægypti,

    • 134, 9: Ps. Lamb. 77, 43: Mt. Bos. 24, 24.
  • Sóþlíce leáse cristas and leáse wítegan arísaþ, and wyrcþ, fórebeácna

    exsurgent ĕnim pseudochristi, et pseudoprophētæ, et dăbunt signa et portenta,

    • Mk. Bos. 13, 22: Deut. 13, 1.
  • Búton gé tácna and fórebeácnu geseón, ne gelýfe gé

    except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

    • Jn. Bos. 4, 48: Nar. 50, 21: -beácno. Blickl. Hom. 117, 30.
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  • fóre-beácen, n.