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líc-þegnung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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líc-þegnung, -þénung, e; f.
Last offices done to the dead, funeral, exeguies
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  • Ic mæg habban árwurþfulle lícþénunge of heófigendre menigu

    I may have honourable service done to my corpse by a mourning multitude,

    • Homl. Th. i. 86, 33
    • .
  • Ðá ðá his frýnd ða lícþénunge gearcodon

    when his friends were performing the last offices for the dead,

    • ii. 28, 3.
  • Ða fǽmnan dedan hire liicþénunge and lǽddon hí tó byrgenne,

    • Shrn. 87, 27
    • .
  • Lícþénunga

    exsequiæ,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 13
    • ;
    • Som. 16, 17
    • .
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  • líc-þegnung, n.