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  • Episcopus is grécisc nama, ꝥ is on léden speculator, and on englisc sceáwere, for þám þe hé is geset tó þám ꝥ hé ofersceáwian sceole mid hys gýmene þá lǽwedan, swá swá God sylf cwæð tó Ezechiele: '

    Speculatorem dedi te

    ic þé gesette tó sceáwere,'
      O. E. Hml. i. 303, 20-24.

  • Ealra ðǽra tácna ðe ðǽr gelimpað ic eom sceáwere and gýmend,

      Hml. Th. i. 504, 3.

  • Beforan þám eágum þæs úplican sceáweres (

    spectatoris

    ) hé eardode ána,
      Gr. D. 105, 28.
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  • Þá sǽde se sceáwere (cf. wæs sum man . . . behýd þám hǽþenum, 128) þe hit ǽr geseah,

      Hml. S. 32, 138.

  • On sumere nihte hlosnode sum óðer munuc his færeldes and mid sleaccre stalcunge his fótswaðum filigde . . . Cúðberhtus his sceáweres seócnysse gehǽlde,

      Hml. Th. ii. 138, 23.
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  • Ic geset eom kyning fram him ofer sceáwere (cf. sceáwung-stów) his dúne

    ego constitutus sum rex super Syon montem eius,

      Ps. L. 2, 6.
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  • Nú wé men geseóð swylce þurh sceáwere and on rǽdelse videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate, Nap. 55. [On þám halgen gewriten se mann hine sylfne mæig sceawigen swa swa on hwylcen sceawere

    in sanctis scripturis quasi in quodam speculo homo se ipsum considerare potest,

      Angl. xi. 374, 78.
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Etymology
[v. N. E. D. shower.]
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v. dægmǽl-, heáh-, in-, steor- (not steór-), tíd-, wcí-sceáwere.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sceáwere.” 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/57705.

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