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ildra

  • noun [ masculine ]
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ildra, m.
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of relationship.
a parent
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  • Sume habbað bearn genóge, ac ðá beóþ hwílum unhále oþþe yfele . . . ꝥ; ðá eldran for þám gnorniaþ,

      Bt. ii. i ; F. 32, 9.
  • Mið ðý in lǽddun ældru his (

    parentes eius

    ) ðone cnæht,
      Lk. R. 2, 27.
  • Ældro, 43.
  • Manige bearn beóþ gestrýned tó heora eldrena forwyrde,

      Bt. 31, l ; F. 112, 9.
in pl.
more or less distant kinsfolk of a person in direct ascent
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  • Se mon sé þe bócland hæbbe and him his yldran (mǽgas,

    v. l.

    ) lǽfdon,
      Ll. Th. i. 88, 16.
  • Manigne mon sceamaþ ꝥ hé weorþe wyrsa ðonne his eldran wǽron

    imposita nobilibus necessitudo ne a majorum virtute degenerem,

      Bt. 30, l; F. 110, 4.
  • Hé hiene hétt bebyrgean an his ieldrena byrg

    hunc referri in sepulchra majorum sepelirique praecepit,

      Ors. 3, 9; S. 128, 16. (2 a) of an animal :--
    Seó leó gemonð þæs wildan gewunan hire eldrana, Bt. 25; F. 88, 13.
ancestors, fathers of a people
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  • Úre ieldran þisne ymbhwyrft þises middangeardes on þreó tódǽldon

    majores nostri orbem totius terrae triquadrum statuere,

      Ors. l, l; S. 8, l. Eówre ieldran, 4, 13; S. 212, 24.
  • Eoldran,

      Bt. 16, l; F. 50, 7.
  • Gif hié gemunan willað hiora ieldrena (

    majorum suorum

    ) unclǽnnessa,
      Ors. 2, i; S. 64, 14.
  • Þá burg seó wæs on ǽrdagum heora ieldrena éðel

    urbem auctorem originis suae,

      4, 5 ; S. 168, II.
of position, rank, &c. ,
a superior, a noble
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  • Bituín ældrum

    inter primores

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. in, 42.
  • Betweón ieldrum,

      45, 55.
  • Betweoh yldrum,

      49, 1.
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