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the belief and practice of the heathen :
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  • Mánfulles hǽþenscipes bígengcas

    fanaticę gentilitatis ceremonias,

      An. Ox. 2623.

  • Albanus gelýfde on ðone sóðan God, and wiðsóc þám hǽðenscype, and wearð sóþlíce crísten,

      Hml. S. 19, 28.

  • His fæder wæs . . . on hǽðenscipe wunigende and his gemæcca samod,

      Hml. Th. ii. 498, 26.

  • Hé áwende his móder of mánfullum hǽðenscipe . . . and his fæder forwearð on fúlum hǽðenscipe,

      504, 5-11.

  • Se geréfa þreátode hine tó hǽþenscipe,

      Shrn. 33, 10.

  • Idele leóð þe ymbe hǽðenscipe geworhte syndon,

      Hml. A. 142, 120.
a particular form of heathen belief
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  • Þá þrý cnihtas wiðcwǽdon his (

    Nebuchadnezzar's

    ) hǽþenscipe,
      Hml. A. 70, 131.
the condition of being heathen
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  • Heó nolde his sanda brúcan for his hǽðenscipe (

    on account of his being a heathen

    ),
      Hml. A. 110, 271.

  • Heó nolde þurh his hǽþenscype habban ǽnige synne,

      115, 428.
a heathen practice
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  • Þonne heó nele ábúgan tó nánum hǽðenscipe,

      Hml. A. 28, 97.

  • Ǽghwylcne hǽðenscype wordes and weorces forhogie man ǽfre,

    id est idolatria et ueneficia,

    . . . ,
      Wlfst. 73, 17.
a time when (or place where)
heathendom prevails
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  • Þá þe secgaþ þæt þeós world sý nú wyrse on ðysan crístendóme þonne hió ǽr on þǽm hǽþenscype wǽre,

      Ors. 1, 8; S. 40, 25.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hǽþen-scipe.” 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/51587.

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