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morgen-sprǽc

  • noun [ feminine ]
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morgen-sprǽc, e; f.
The periodical assembly of a guild held in the morning, or on the morrow after the guild-feast
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  • Se gegilda ðe ne geséce his morgenspǽce gilde his syster huniges

    the member of a guild, who does not attend the assembly of the guild, shall pay a sester of honey,

    • Chart. Th. 613, 7.
  • [Cf. And if any broþer be somound to any morwe-speche . . . and wil nouht come, he scal paye a pound of wax, English Guilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 54. See also the Glossary for other references to the word, and Introduction, pp. xxxii-xxxiii, for remarks upon it. In the Promptorium morow-, morwe-, mor-speche = crastinum colloquium; cf. English Guilds, p. 30, where a meeting is held 'on morwe aftyr þe gylde day.']
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Bosworth, Joseph. “morgen-sprǽc.” 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/23142.

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