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wícnere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wícnere, es; m.
An officer, a minister, steward, manager
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  • Wícnere

    dispensator, Hpt. Gl. 453, 47, Be ðam men ðe ðone wífman fram his hláforde áspaneþ, ðe his wícnere (villicus )

    bið,
      L. Ecg. P. ii. 14, tit.; Th. ii. 180, 25.

  • Hé clipode him tó his yldestan geréfan (

    servum seniorem domus suae

    ), ðe ealle his þing bewiste ... Ðá cwæð se wícnere (in v. 9 geréfa is again used, in v. 10 wícnere),
      Gen. 24, 5.

  • Ðá cwǽdon hig tó ðam wícnere (v. geréfan, v. 16;

    in each case the Latin is

    dispensatorem),
      43, 19.

  • Setton him ðá ǽnne wícnere getreówne ... æt ðam wæs gelang eall heora fóda; se heom on ealre hwíle metes tilian sceolde,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 217.

  • Nys nánum mæssepreóste álýfed, ne diácone, ðæt hí geréfan (

    praefecti) beón, ne wícneras (procuratores ),

      L. Ecg. P. iii. 8; Th. ii. 198, 21.

  • Ic nelle ðæt ǽnig mann áht ðǽr on teó búton hé (

    the archbishop) and his wícneras (cf. the similar document of Henry II: Mine agene wicneres (ministri) ... hi and heara wicneras (ministri )

    ðe hi hit betechan willað,
      347, 1-4), Chart. Erl. 233, 7.

  • Se cyngc beódeþ his geréfan, ðæt gé ðám abbodan beorgan, and filstan heora wícneran,

      L. Eth. ix. 32; Th. i. 346, 32.

  • Án woruldcynincg hæfð fela þegna and mislíce wícneras,

      Homl. Skt. i. pref., 60.
Etymology
[He king wæs and his wikenares chæs, Laym. 18175. He sende word bi his beste wukeneren (one of his cnihtes, 2nd MS.), 6704.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wícnere.” 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/35521.

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