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sige-fæst

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sige-fæst, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§627;
With victory secured, victorious, triumphant,
applied to persons
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  • Sigefæst

    victor,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 18.

  • Sigfæst

    triumphator,

      Rtl. 122, 12.

  • And hé sigefæst swá eft hám férde

    sicque victor in patriam reversus,

      Bd. 2, 9 ; S. 512, 5 : Exon. Th. 460, 26 ; Hö. 23.

  • Þurh cynincges wísdóm folc wyrð gesǽlig, gesundful and sigefæst,

      L. I. P. 2 ; Th. ii. 306, 5.

  • Hé ofslóh mid ðam sigefæstan here eall ðæt mennisc,

      Jos. 10, 40.

  • Hí sigefæste ofer sǽ férdon,

      Bd. 1, 12 ; S. 481, 15.

  • Sigefæste

    triumphabiles, triumpho plenos,

      Hpt. Gl. 489. 33.

  • Hý beóþ ðý gesundran and ðý sigefæstran,

      Exon. Th. 408, 29 ; Rä. 27, 19.

  • Se sigefæstesta cyning

    victoriosissimus rex,

      Bd. 3, 7 ; S. 529, 16.
applied to things
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  • Sigefest wuldor,

      Hy. 8, 4.

  • Sigefæstnehám,

      Menol. Fox 298 ; Men. 150.

  • Sigefæst tácon

    victricia signa,

      Bd. 1, 8 ; S. 479, 24 : H. R. 105, 21.

  • Sigefæstan gúþfanan

    victricia, victoriosa,

      Hpt. Gl. 447, 54.
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v. sigor-fæst.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sige-fæst.” 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/27679.

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