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wǽr

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
wǽr, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§425;
A covenant, compact, agreement, pledge
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  • Wǽr is ætsomne Godes and monna, gǽsthálig treów,

      Exon. Th. 36, 29; Cri. 583. [Gewemme
    ]dre wǽre

    violati foederis (pacti ),

      Hpt. Gl. 496, 3: Cd. Th. 186, 18; Exod. 140.

  • Wǽre gemyndig,

      143, 1; Gen. 2372.

  • Wǽre (cf.

    Icel. use in pl.) foedus, i. pactum, conjunctio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 43.

  • Clam oððe wed oððe wǽra

    clasma,

      21, 2.

  • Wǽra

    foedera, i. pacta amicitiae, certa amicitia,

      148, 38.

  • Ðære sibbe wære (

    cujus foedera pacis

    ) betwyh ða ylcan cyningas and heora ríce áwunedon,
      Bd. 4, 21; S. 590, 25.

  • Beweddedum wǽrum

    pactis sponsalibus,

      Hpt. Gl. 439, 19.

  • Se cyng mid his folce hiene gesóhte. Ac Agothocles gedyde untreówlíce wið hiene, ðæt hé hiene on his wǽrum (MS. L. has warum) beswác and ofslóg

    rex pactus est cum Agathocle communionem belli. Sed postquam in unum exercitus junxerunt per Agathoclem insidiis circumventus occisus est,

      Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 170, 10.

  • Wǽre genóman

    foedus fecerunt,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 39, 25.

  • Ðæt ic ða wǽre forlǽte ðe ic tó swá myclum cyninge genom

    ut pactum, quod cum tanto rege inii, ipse primus irritum faciam,

      Bd. 2, 12; S. 513, 24.

  • Wére trume fæstnie

    pactum firmum feriat,

      Txts. 172, 8.

  • Ic ðé wǽre míne selle,

      Cd. Th. 132, 33; Gen. 2202: 171, 22; Gen. 2832.

  • Ic ðé bidde, ðæt ðú treówa selle, wǽra ðína,

      170, 24; Gen. 2818.

  • Gewríþ sibbe wǽre ł wedd

    asstringe pacis federa,

      Hymn. Surt. 29, 3.

  • Pehta cynn hafaþ sibbe and wǽre mid Angelðeóde

    Pictorum natio foedus pacis cum gente habet Anglorum,

      Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 34.

  • Haldende wére

    servantes pactum,

      Ps. Surt. 118, 158.

  • Utan wé ða drihtenlícan wǽra gehealdan,

      Wulfst. 253, 3.

  • Wǽre healdan,

      Cd. Th. 216, 22; Dan. 10.

  • Wið Waldend wǽre healdan, fæste treówe,

      204, 19; Exod. 421: Andr.Kmbl. 426; An. 213: Elen. Kmbl. 1643; El. 823: Exon. Th. 339, 28; Gn. Ex. 101.

  • Hé ða wǽre and ða winetreówe lǽstan wolde,

      475, 19; Bo. 50: 172, 17; Gú. 1145: Cd. Th. 93, 8; Gen. 1542: 139, 10; Gen. 2307: 142, 23; Gen. 2366.

  • Ðæt ǽnig mon wordum ne worcum wǽre ne brǽce,

      Beo. Th. 2205; B. 1100.

  • Heó his (

    Joseph's

    ) mǽgwinum morðor fremedon, wǽre frǽton,
      Cd. Th. 187, 7; Exod. 147.

  • Hé lyt wǽre gewonade,

      Exon. Th. 148, 19; Gú. 747.

  • Wé sceolon ús geearnian ða siblecan wǽra Godes and manna,

      Blickl. Homl. 111, 3.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. wára foedus; Icel. várar; pl.]
Similar entries
v. freoðo-, friðo-wǽr.
Linked entries
v.  ge-wǽred.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wǽr.” 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/34412.

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