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cist

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
cist, a chest.
Add: ciste, an (? v. bóc-cist).
a box, coffer, casket
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  • Cest capsis, Txts. 50, 231:

    cista, arcula,

      110, 1168.

  • Cyst oððe mederce loculus, Wrt. Voc. i. 80, 80:

    capsis,

    ii.
      13, 19.

  • Seó ród is on treówenre ceste belocen, and ðonne seó cest bið onlocen, þonne cymeð upp wunderlic stenc,

      Shrn. 67, 27.

  • Hwæt fremað þé þæt ðín cyst stande ful mid gódum, and ðín ingehýd beó ǽmtig ǽlces gódes?,

      Hml. Th. ii. 410, 11.

  • On ciste

    in capsella,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 78.

  • Ceste

    capsulam (cum sanctorum reliquiis,

      Bd. 1, 18), Txts. 181, 65.

  • Man sceal habban piperhorn, cyste, mydercan, bearmteáge,

      Angl. ix. 264, 19.

  • Funde mon on his máðmhúse twá cista (arcas), Ors. 6, 3; S. 258, 13. I a. a coffin. v. cistian :-- Cest

    arca funeris, sarcofagum,

      Txts. 109, 1146.

  • Heó wearð bebyrged on treówenre cyste,

      Hml. S. 20, 69.

  • Hé hrán ꝥ ceiste (

    loculum

    ),
      Lk. L. 7, 14.
a basket or ark of rushes. [v. N. E. D. chest, 4]
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  • Cistula, sporta vel

    cyst,
      Wrt. Voc. 131, 19.
a horn as a receptacle (?)
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  • Ceste

    cornu,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 34.

  • Cyste,

      15, 53.
Etymology
[From Lat. cista.]
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v. lǽce-, mæst-, máðm-, seód-cist.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cist.” 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/41766.

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