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sín-lǽca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sín-lǽca, -láca, an; m.
A magician, necromancer, sorcerer
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  • Scín*-*lǽcan (-lǽcean, -lécan)

    nebulonis, Txts. 81, 1372: nebulis (nebulonis? ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 60: 79. 4.

  • Ðæs leásan scínlǽcan

    falsi nebulo

    ,
      147, 2.

  • Sabastianus ongon hine (

    St. Victor

    ) nédan tó deófolgelde; ðá hé ðæt ne geþafede, ðá hét hé sumne scínlǽcan him sellan etan ðæt flǽsc ðæt wæs geǽttred,
      Shrn. 84, 27.

  • Hí gefetton Escolafius ðone scínlácan mid ðære ungemetlícan nædran ðe mon Epithaurus hét

    horrendum illum Epidaurium colubrum, cum ipso Aesculapii lapide advenerint

    ,
      Ors. 3, 10; Swt. 140,9: 3, 10, tit.; Swt. 3, 19.

  • Scínlǽcan

    magi,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 39, 11.

  • On helle beóþ ða scínlǽcan, ða ðe galdorcræftas begangaþ,

      Blickl. Homl. 61, 23.

  • Ða fǽmnan ðe gewuniaþ onfón gealdorcræftigan and scínlǽcan (-lácan,

      MS. H.)
    and wiccan, ne lǽt ðú ða libban, L. Alf. 30; Th. i. 50, 10. v. two following words.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sín-lǽca.” 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/26827.

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