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scipe

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
scipe, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§611;
pay, stipend
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  • Scipe vel bigleofa

    stipendium,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 33
      • .
[
Hi nolleþ paye þet hi ssolle, and hi ofhealdeþ þe ssepes of ham þet doþ hare niedes, Ayenb. 39, 5 (the word occurs several times in this work).
Withholdyng or abrigging of the schipe or the hyre or the wages of servauntes, Chauc. Persones T. (De Ira).
And cf. Ne mihte ic of þan kinge habben scipinge; ich spende mine ahte þa wile þa heo ilaste, Laym. 13656.
]
state, condition, dignity, office
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  • Hæbbe ic mínes cynescipes gerihta swá mín fæder hæfde, and míne þegnas hæbben heora scipe (cf. se déma ðe óðrum wóh déme . . . þolige á his þegenscipes, L. Edg. ii. 3; Th. i. 266, 15-18) on mínum tíman swá hý hæfdon on mínes fæder,

    • L. Edg. S. 2
      • ;
    • Th. i. 272, 28
      • .
-scipe -ship, helps to form many nouns.
Etymology
[
O. Frs. -skipe, -skip
:
O. Sax. -skepi.
]
Linked entries
v.  byrd-scype.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “scipe.” 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/26847.

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