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§224; §225; §376; §562;
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  • Spǽce (printed swæce) heów leáse false fashions of speech; insanias

    falsas

    ,
      Ps. Rdr. 39, 5.

  • Gemetigian ge his spréce ge his swígan,

      Prov. K. 2.
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  • Þá wæs seó tunge álýsed tó sprǽce,

      Gr. D. 184, 10.

  • Aidan ne mihte gebígan his sprǽce tó norðhymbriscum gereorde,

      Hml. S. 26, 68.
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  • Spræcu

    (eloquia)

    Drihtnes sprǽca clǽne,
      Ps. L. 11, 7.

  • Ásettað þás spǽca (sprǽca,

    v. l.

    ) on eówrum heortum,
      Lk. 9, 44.
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  • Nán sprǽc ne mæg his mihta áreccan,

      Hml. S. 31, 1302.

  • Hwæt synt þá spǽca (

    sermones

    ) þe gyt recceað inc betwýnan?,
      Lk. 24, 17.
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  • Ágen vel gecynde sprǽc

    idioma, proprietas linguae,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 46.

  • Ná gýta nǽron wordlácu ne sprǽcu (loquelae neque sermones) þára þe ne wǽron gehérde stefna heora,

      Ps. L. 18, 4.
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  • Ðá cóm hé tó þǽre spǽce þæs hálgan weres

    ad colloquium sancti viri pervenit,

      Guth. Gr. 159, 7.

  • Hí gereordon hí sylfe þurh þá hálgan sprǽcu þæs gástlican lífes (

    per sacra spiritalis vitae colloquia),

      Gr. D. 168, 17.
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  • Ðá spréce nǽnig mon uferran dógor on nǽnge óðre halfe oncærrende sié,

      C. D. B. i. 446, 13.
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  • Martinus . . . wolde for sumere neóde wið þone cásere spræcan . . . þá cóm Martinus eft embe ðá ylcan sprǽce tó þám cásere,

      Hml. S. 31, 659.

  • Bió ðé uníðe tó clipianne and tó lǽranne, ge furðum ðína ágna sprǽca

    loquere in causa tua vix,

      Past. 385, 11.
  • v. cræft- (Ælfc. Gr. Z.
      18, 15),
    efen-, ende-, fela-, gaf-, ge-, hearm-, hosp-, samod-, steór-, sundor-, tungol-sprǽc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sprǽc.” 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/58393.

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