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bócere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
bócere, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§354;
A writer, scribe, an author, a learned man, instructor; scriptor, scriba, interpres, vir doctus vel literatus
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  • Ðá cwæþ se bócere, Láreów, well ðú on sóþe cwǽde

    then the scribe said, Master, thou in truth hast well said,

      Mk. Bos. 12, 32.

  • Hwæt secgeaþ ða bóceras

    why say the scribes?

      Mt. Bos. 17, 10.

  • Hieronimus se wurþfulla and se wísa bócere awrát be Iohanne

    the worthy and the wise author Jerome wrote concerning John,

      Ælfc. T. Lisle 32, 1.

  • Ǽlc gelǽred bócere forlǽt ealde þing and niwe

    every learned writer brings out old things and new,

      39, 5.

  • Swá ðætte swá hwæt swá he of godcundum stafum þurh bóceras geleornode

    ita ut quicquid ex divinis literis per interpretes disceret,

      Bd. 4, 24; S. 596, 33.

  • We witan ðæt, þurh Godes gyfe, þrǽl wearþ to þegene, and ceorl wearþ to eorle, sangere to sacerde, and bócere to biscope

    we know that, by the grace of God, a slave has become a thane, and a ceorl [free man] has become an earl, a singer a priest, and a scribe a bishop,

      L. Eth. vii. 21; Th. 1. 334, 7-9.
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v.  bécere.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bócere.” 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/4767.

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