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scír-mann

  • noun [ masculine ]
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scír-mann, (scíre-, scíres-), es; m.
an official, officer, ruler, one who discharges the duties of a scír (v. scír,
)
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  • Scírman

    procurator,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 57, 37.

  • Wæs scíremonn (Pontius Pilatus)

    procurante Pontio Pilato,

      Lk. Skt. Lind. 3, 1.

  • Scíremon (sgiiremonn, Lind. )

    dispensator,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 12, 42.

  • Swá sceal gód scýrman (a

    reeve or bailiff)

    his hláfordes healdan, dó ymbe his ágen swá swá hé wylle, Anglia ix.
      260, 16.

  • Ne ofermódgiaþ ða scírmenn ná for ðý

    nequaquam praepositi ex hoc superbiunt.

      Past. 17, 2; Swt. 109, 18.

  • Hwæt elles meahte beón getácnod þurh Eze-chiel búton ða scírmenn

    per Ezechielem praepositorum persona signatur,

      21, 3 ; Swt. 153, 24.
an inhabitant of a district (v. scir,
)
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  • Gregorius befrán, hú þære scíre nama wǽre, ðe ða cnapan of álǽdde wǽron. Him man sǽde, ðæt ða scírmen wǽron Dere gehátene. Homl. Th. ii. 120, 33. .
as a technical English term = scír-geréfa. v. Stubbs' Const. Hist. i. 113, Kemble's Saxons in England, ii. 158
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  • Æðelwine scírman (

    in the next charter he is called

    scíregeréfa, iv.
      10, 27), Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iv. 9, 29.

  • Ufegeat scíreman,

      304, 17.

  • Ðá com ðider se scýresman Leófríc,

      266, 24: 267, 11.

  • Gif hwá him ryhtes bidde beforan hwelcum scírmen oððe óðrum déman,

      L. In. 8; Th. i. 106, 21.
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v. scírig-mann.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “scír-mann.” 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/26920.

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