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to expose to smoke or
steam, fumigate: — Lege stór on þá gléda and réc hine mid ꝥ hé swǽte,
    Lch. ii. 348, 5.
Gif sinwe síen gescruncene . . . wyl on wætre, beþe mid, and réce þá sinwe geornlíce, 328, 8.
to cause to emit smoke, burn incense
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  • Ꝥ hú (= heó) récte

    ut adholeret (thymiama diis),

      An. Ox. 8, 238.
  • Rícenne

    turificare,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 63: 26, 76.
Etymology
[The passage to which this gloss belongs is: Ut missa statuncula Dianae cogeret Victoriam apostatico ritu turificare, Ald. 70, 5; the gloss is to turificare not Dianae.]
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v. be-, ge-, geond-récan.
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