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in a technical sense, of the 'ceorl' class or
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  • Gif mon hǽme mid twelfhyndes monnes wífe, hundtwelftig sciłł. gebéte þám were. Syxhyndum men hundteóntig sciłł. gebéte. Cierliscum (ceorl-, cyrl-,

    v. ll.) men feówertig sciłł. gebéte. Be cirliscere (cierl-, cyrl-, v. ll.) fǽmnan onfenge. Gif mon on cirliscre (ceorl-, cyrl-, v. ll. )

    fǽmnan breóst gefó,
      Ll. Th. i. 68, 9-14.
in a general sense,
common, vulgar, rustic, plebeian, peasant
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  • Hwæt is þes ceorlisca wer

    quis est iste vir rusticus?,

      Gr. D. 35, 2.

  • Ceorlisc bysmrung,

      46, 18.

  • Se feórþandǽl byð quadrans gecíged, beó hyt penig oððe pund, swá ꝥ wel wát ceorlisc folc, Angl. viii. 306, 31.

    Vulgaris dies,

    ꝥ byð ceorliscdæg,
      317, 11.

  • Cyrlisc plebeia, Germ. 393, 115:

    barbarus,

      An. Ox. 56, 228.
  • Forseah Apollonius cyrlisces mannes grétinge æfter rícra manna gewunan. Hellanicus cwæð: 'Ne forseoh ðú cyrliscne man þe bið mid wurðfullum þeáwum gefrætwod,' Ap. Th. 7, 22-26.

  • Of cyrliscum lífe and of folclicum gedeorfe

    ex vita rustica et ex plebeio labore,

      R. Ben. 138, 22.

  • Mid cyrlisceum (ceorl-, v. l.) þeáwe

    rusticano usu,

      Gr. D. 9, 16.

  • On þám ceorliscean móde

    in mente rustica,

      46, 13.

  • Interorina fram manegum mannum mid ceorliscum wordum (cyrlisceum worde,

    v. l.) (verbo rustico )

    is genemned
      Interocrina, 87, 32.

  • Cierliscum

    rusticis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 8.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cirlisc.” 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/41746.

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