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mending, repair, remedy, improvement,
repair of a structure
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  • Is ealles þæs landes .xxv. swułga and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte,

    • C. D. iii. 429, 19
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Cf. ciric-bót.
a medical remedy
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  • Gé blindnesse bóte fundon,

    • Gú. 600
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  • Him tó laman limseóce cwómon ... symle hǽlo þǽr æt þám bisceope, bóte fundon,

    • El. 1217
      • :
    • 299
      • .
rescue from evil or peril, amendment of condition , help
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  • Hý tó anlic-nessum hý gebǽdon, and wéndon þæt heom of ðám cóme bót ... ǽlc yfel cymð of deófle and ǽlc broc and nan bót,

    • Wlfst. 11, 6-15
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  • Wæs frófor cumen, earfoðsíða bót,

    • Gen. 1476
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    • B. 281
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  • Is seó bót gelong æt ánum,

    • Cri. 152.

  • Cume nú to bóte, gif hit God wille. And git mæg þeáh bót cuman, wille hit man georne on eornost áginnan,

    • Ll. Th. i. 348, 22-24
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  • He on Drihten blyssað, bóte gewéneð

    (sperabit in eo),

    • Ps. Th. 63, 9
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  • Smeágende hwæt tó bóte mihte æt þǽm fǽrcwealme,

    • Ll. Th. 270, 9
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  • ꝥ wyrð hé ágeaf tó ðare ceastre bóte (cf. hé heora ceastre ge-staðolode, 16)

    • Ap. Th. 10, 9

  • Weána bóte gebídan,

    • B. 934
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    • 909
      • .
improvement of moral condition, amendment
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  • Hié náne mildheortnesse þurhteón ne mehtan, ǽr þǽm him seó bót of ðǽm crístendóme com,

    • Ors. 2, 1
      • ;
    • S. 64, 18
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  • Hé tó bóte gehwearf

    he was converted,

    • El. 1126
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  • Hí gegaderiað monifeald dysig, bútan heora hwilc eft tó rihtre bóte gecirre,

    • Bt. 3, 1
      • ;
    • F. 6, 5
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  • Manige men þurh ꝥ tó sóþre bóte gecyrraþ, and góde geweorþaþ,

    • Bl. H. 129, 23
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  • Þás tída úre Drihten ús tó bóte and tó clǽnsunga úrra dǽda forgifen hafaþ,

    • 131, 1
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  • Ic þá bóte gemon, cume tó gif ic mót,

    • Hy. 4, 19
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amends, reparation, compensation for injury,
in a general sense
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  • Him eft cymeð bót in bósme,

    • Rä. 38, 7
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  • Hié heora land tó bismere oferhergodan, and him ðæs nǽnige bóte dydon,

    • Bl. H. 201, 23
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as a legal term
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  • Gif hwá óðres god-sunu sleá . . . weaxe sió bót be þám were,

    • Ll. Th. i. 150, 14
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  • Ne sý þǽr nán óðer bót bútan ꝥ heáfod,

    • 282, 1
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  • Nán óðer bót búton ꝥ man ceorfe him handa of,

    • 394, 9
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  • Nán man ꝥ ne wrece, ne bóte ne bidde,

    • 288, 3
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  • Nǽnig witena wénan þorfte bóte tó banan folmum,

    • B. 158
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  • Hé sealde him tó bóte, þæs þe hé his brýd genam, gangende feoh and seolfor,

    • Gen. 2718.

  • ꝥ hire frýnd móton beón bóte nýhst

    (i. e. bót was to be claimed from the guilty woman's relatives),

    • Ll. Th. i. 256, 4.

  • ꝥ he hine sylfne inlagige tó bóte

    (i. e. make himself entitled to offer bót for a crime, which, but for the king's grace, would be bótleás (v. 81))

    . . . Gif hit þonne tó bóte gegá,

    • 340, 13-16
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  • Ǽr þám þe hí habban bóte águnnen,

    • 324, 13
      • .

  • Godcunde bóte underfangen,

    • 248, 24
      • .

  • From alre néweste geleáfulra sýn heó ásyndrade nymðe heó hit hér mid þingonge bóte gebéte

    (cf. nisi ante placita satisfactione emendaverit,

    • 106, 9
      • ),
    • C. D. i. 114, 27
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as a religious term,
amends for sin, repentance, penance (cf. dǽd-bót)
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  • Don wé úrum Drihtne sóþe hreówe and bóte, ꝥ wé þurh ꝥ gegearnian úra synna forlǽtnesse,

    • Bl. H. 35, 36
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    • 79, 8
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  • Dón bóte úre yfeldǽda,

    • 99, 1
      • :
    • 101, 9
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bót.” 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/40755.

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