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§7; §48; §80; §93; §224; §225; §278; §288; §291; §306; §310; §505;
[For the bracket at Ll. Th. i. 206, 6 substitute : (the claim made on account of the slain thief?s death)]
add: where the subject is an agreement, whose terms are stated
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  • Ealswá ðá foreward spreocað,

      C. D. iii. 336, 26.
add: to speak of
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  • Gif hié hwæt swá heálicra yfela on him ongieten ðæt hié hit niéde sprecan scylen

    si qua valde sunt eorum prava, apud semetipsos dijudicent,

      Past. 197, 6.

  • Wæs þǽr in þám sprecenan íglande sum mycel hlǽw

    erat in praefata insula tumulus,

      Guth. Gr. 117, 6.
add: sprecan fore
to speak on behalf of
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  • Hé bæd mé ðæt ic him wǽre forespeca . . . Ðá spæc ic him fore, and þingade him tó Ælfréde cinge,

      C. D. ii. 133, 16.
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v. twi-, -wiþ, -, ymb-sprecan; bufan-sprecen ; sprecende.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sprecan.” 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/58402.

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