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wrixl

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
wrixl, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§98;
change, alteration, vicissitude
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  • Ðæt is wræclíc wrixl in wera lífe, ðætte moncynnes Scyppend onféng æt fǽmnan flǽsc, and sió weres friga wiht ne cúþe,

    • Exon. Th. 26, 12
      • ;
    • Cri. 416.

  • God, ðú ðe gimetgaþ giscæfta wrixla

    (rerum vices),

      Rtl. 164, 12.
where there is alternation, alternation, exchange
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  • Mid ðý hí ðysse ungesǽligan wrixle (hac infelici vicissitudine, i. e. the passing from heat to cold and vice versa) ðrǽste wǽron.

    • Bd. 5, 12
      • ;
    • S. 628, 2.
where there is reciprocal action, interchange
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  • Ðǽr wæs heard plega, wælgára wrixl,

    • Cd. Th. 120, 5
      • ;
    • Gen. 1990.
where one thing takes the place of another, place, stead
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  • Ðonne sculon hié gadrian óðer ierfe on ðæs wrixle (wriexle,

      Hatt. MS.
    ) ðe hé ǽr sealdon,

    • Past. 45
      • ;
    • Swt. 340, 18.

  • Hæfdon hí mid him gehálgode tabulan on wígbedes wrixle

    habentes secum tabulam altaris vice dedicatam,

    • Bd. 5, 10
      • ;
    • S. 624, 34.
a loan
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  • Borge odde wrixle

    mutuo,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 5.

  • Wrixle

    mutuum

      (Lk. 6, 34), 74, 43.
what is given in return, return, requital
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  • Hé forgeald wyrsan wrixle wælhlem ðone ; . . . hé him on heáfde helm gescær,

    • Beo. Th. 5930
      • ;
    • B. 2969.
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v. ge-wrixl.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wrixl.” 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/36680.

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