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bóc

  • noun [ feminine ]
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bóc, a book.
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §7; §47; §128; §129; §163; §165; §194; §292; §310; §311; §410; §411; §562;
Add: g. béc, bóce, bóc; d. béc, bóc.
a document, register, catalogue
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  • Of boec (bóc,

      L.) lifgendra, Ps. Srt. 68, 29.

  • Béc

    in catalogo

    ,
      An. Ox. 341.

  • On cyninga bócum

    in basileon

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 4.
  • I a. a legal document,
a bill of divorce
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  • Híw*-*gedáles bóc

    libellum repudii

    ,
      Mk. 10, 4.
a charier
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  • Hafingseotan boec,

      C. D. B. i. 402, 5.

  • Lulla gebohte ðás boec and ðis lond,

      C. D. ii. 3, 10.
a book, volume, literary work, pages; main division of a work
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  • Bóc liber vel codex vel volumen, Wrt. Voc. i. 80, 75:

    cartula

    , ii.
      92, 47: 19, 44.

  • From ðǽre dura ðisse béc,

      Past. 25, 11.

  • Þá blóstman þǽre æftran béc,

      Shrn. 200, 12: 129, 29: Bt. 42; F. 256, 22.

  • In heáfde boec (bóc. Spl.)

    in capite libri

    ,
      Ps. Srt. 39, 8.

  • Isaias hit on béc sette,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 2, 22.

  • Capitel gemyndelíce bútan béc gesǽd,

      R. Ben. 34, 1.

  • On bœc

    in libro (Clementis ),

      Scint. 17, 16.

  • On boec ðára salma,

      Lk. L. R. 20, 42.

  • On Isaias béc (bóc L.),

      Lk. 3, 4; Mk. 12, 26.

  • On þǽre bóc þe ys Exodus genemned,

      Angl. viii. 335, 31.

  • Bóc biblum, bócum biblis, béc

    biblos

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 30, 29, 38.

  • Bóc

    opusculum

    ,
      An. Ox. 4586.

  • Béc

    opuscula

    , 4535.

  • Þára bóca

    indegitament(or)um

    (cf.
      An. Ox. 4442), Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 52: 47, 1.

  • Ðára bócana

    librorum

    ,
      Mt. p. 11, 12.

  • Bócum cartis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 3: 19, 29: scedulis, 85, 77:

    tomis

    ,
      93, 20.

  • Of bócum ex bibliothecis, An. Ox. 2027. ꝥ hí tó ǽlcon sinoðe habban bécc and reáf tó godcundre þénunge, Ll. Th. ii. 244, 11. ¶ Crístes bóc

    a, the, gospel

    :-- Wé habbað micele máran endebyrdnysse þǽre Crístes béc gesǽd þonne ðis dægðerlice godspel behæfð,
      Hml. Th. i. 220, 25.

  • Æfter Crístes bóce tǽcinge,

      R. Ben. 104, 19. v.
    canon-, ciric-, cneóres-, ge-rím-, læden-, seonoþ-, spell-, traht-, þegnung-, wítegung-bóc; irfe-béc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bóc.” 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/40654.

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