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hearga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hearga, an; m.
[For pl. hearga; f. substitute:
a place sacred to a god, with an idol and an altar.
a grove
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  • Hearga

    lucum

    (the word occurs among glosses to Aldhelm between one on Ald. 50, 25 and another on 50, 27: in the text between these lucum does not occur),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 81
    • :
    • 51, 26
    • .
of a building,
a temple, fane
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  • Se ylca hearg (hearh, here, v. ll.)

    fanum,

    • Bd. 2, 15
    • ;
    • Sch. 175, 5
    • .
  • Haerg

    lupercal (lupercal templum panos,

    • Ld. Gl. H. 22
    • , &
    • 27, 11
    • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 113, 28
    • :
    • 51, 25
    • .
  • Hearges

    sacelli,

    • 90, 20
    • .
  • Ðæs heáfodlican hearges

    capitolii,

    • 20, 38
    • :
    • 128, 46
    • .
  • Hearge

    Herculis (the gloss belongs to sacello, v. Herculis sacello,

    • Ald. 44, 28
    • .
  • In Hpt. Gl. 482, 37 the gloss is placed rightly:

    On hálierne ł hergan, temple

    sacello),

    • 81, 78:

    Herculus,

    • 43, 24
    • .
  • Herige, herge

    delubro, templo,

    • Hpt. Gl. 493, 37
    • .
  • Þæt hé becrupe on þæs Amones anlícnesse þe inne on þǽm hearge

    (templo)

    wæs,

    • Ors. 3, 9
    • ;
    • S. 126, 28
    • .
  • Haerga

    sacellorum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 119, 51
    • .
  • Hergana

    sacellorum (sacellum templum idolorum),

    • Hpt. Gl. 451, 23
    • .
  • Templicre hærgana æfgælþe

    fanatica delubrorum superstitione,

    • 482, 27
    • .
  • Hergas

    fana,

    • Bd. 3, 30
    • ;
    • Sch. 331, 20
    • :
    • 333, 1
    • .
the part of a temple in which the altar and idol stood
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  • Hearh

    delubrum (Roma fregit delubra sacelli,

    • Ald. 151, 22
    • ),
    • An. Ox. 18 b, 21
    • .
the word occurs in place-names:
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  • In loco cuius uocabulum est Besingahearh,

    • C. D. v. 35, 17.
  • Bituih Gumeningahergae and Liddinge,

    • i. 142, 7.
  • In quattuor locis, id est, æt hearge . . . and æt geddincggum,

    • 282, 17
    • .
an idol
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  • Wæs gesewen átífred ealle ðá heargas

    (idola)

    . . . sió gítsung ðe Sc̃s Paulus cuæð ðæt wǽre hearga

    (idolorum)

    geféra,

    • Past. 157, 4-6
    • .
  • Hergas ðeóda

    simulacra gentium

    • Ps. Srt. 113, 4
    • .
  • Heargas hǽþenra ðeóda,

    • Ps. Spl. 134, 15
    • .
  • Herga

    simulacrorum, idolorum.

    • Hpt. Gl. 440, 63
    • .
  • In hergum heara

    in simulacris suis,

    • Ps. Srt. ii. p. 183, 29
    • .
  • Ꝥ hé þeówige unclǽnum deóflum, and þám unwittigum heargum,

    • Hml. S. 30, 52
    • .
  • Se hálga herigeas þreáde, deófulgild tódráf,

    • An. 1689
    • .
the word is also applied to a Christian temple
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  • Heargas

    fana (but Giles gives templa: Nescitis quod templa Dei sint ilia vestra,

    • Ald. 140, 19
    • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 21
    • .
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  • hearga, n.