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sceáwung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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sceáwung, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§615;
a looking at, contemplation, consideration
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  • Embeþonc vel sceáwung

    circumspectio,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 27
      • .

  • Tó dígolnesse and tó stilnesse becom ðære godcundan sceáwunge ancorlífes

    ad anachoreticae contemplationis silentia secreta pervenit,

    • Bd. 4, 28
      • ;
    • S. 605, 11
      • .

  • Se biþ eallenga blind se ðe nóht ne ongiet be ðam leóhte ðære uplecan sceáwunge

    caecus quippe est, qui supernae contemplationis lumen ignorat,

    • Past. 11, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 65, 7
      • .

  • Sceáwunga,

    • 16, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 99, 2
      • .

  • For ðære sceáwungge ðara ungesewenlícra þinga

    invisibilium contemplatione,

    • Swt. 99, 8.

  • Tó ðære sceáwunga ðære sóþan gesǽlþe.

    • Bt. 34, 8
      • ;
    • Fox 144, 33: Met. 21, 24.

  • Sceáwunge

    intuitu,

    • Wülck. Gl. 250, 7.

  • Sceáunge

    aspectu,

    • Rtl. 74, 7.

  • Ǽrest ic hyt leornode myd ðám eágum, syððan myð ðam ingeþance ... ac syððan ic hyt ongyten hæfde ðá forlǽt ic ða sceáwunga mid ðam eágum,

    • Shrn. 175, 8.
respect,regard
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  • Nis scáwung heora deáþes

    non est respectus morti eorum,

    • Ps. Lamb. 72, 4.
reconnoitring, surveying, examination
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  • Swíðost hé fór ðider, tóeácan ðæs landes sceáwunge, for ðǽm horschwælum,

    • Ors. 1, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 17, 35
      • .
a spectacle, show
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  • Al ðe here hiora ða ðe tógedre cómun tó sceáwunga ðæt

    ad spectaculum istud,

    • Lk. Skt. Rush. 23, 48.

  • Ðá hét Neron gewyrcean mycelne tor, and beád ðæt eall ðæt folc cóme tó ðisse sceáwunga

    (the spectacle of Simon flying from the tower )

    ,
    • Blickl. Homl. 187, 13.
a show, appearance, pretence
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  • Under sceáwunge longes gibedes

    sub obtentu prolixae orationis,

    • Mk. Skt. Rush. 12, 40.
as a technical term, the same as ostensio, which occurs
  • L. Eth. iv. 2; Th. i. 300, 20,
and is explained in Du Cange: Tributum a mercatoribus exigi solitum pro facultate ostendendi et exponendi merces in nundinis. Seáwing, scheáwing is mentioned as being granted to the church at Westminster by Edward the Confessor in English charters,
  • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iv. 213, 11: 215,
7: and the form sceáwing occurs in Latin charters,
  • Chart. Th. 359, 4: 411, 29.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. scouwunga consideratio, contemplatio, tuitio, providentia, spectaculum, speculum
.]
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v. blód-, for-, fore-sceáwung.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sceáwung.” 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/26647.

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