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hád-bryce

Grammar
hád-bryce, Dele ' a violation of holy orders'.
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In 1. 4 after mǽðe add, swá be were swá be wíte swá be lahslite swá be ealre are (secundum omnia quę habet malefactor. This is the rendering in the 'Instituta Cnuti', which gives the first clause of the law thus: Qnicnmque uiolauerit ordinem, sicut est

hreód-writ

Grammar
hreód-writ, Dele, and see <b>hreód; II a.</b>

hrýtan

(v.)
Grammar
hrýtan, to scatter. Dele, and see <b>hrútan;</b>

húdenian

(v.)
Grammar
húdenian, Dele the suggested connexion with hýd, and add '
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Húdenian . . . gehört offenbar mid ndd. húdern vor Kalte zittern' . . . und bildet die s-lose nebenform von me. ndd. schudderen', Beiblatt xv. 350

hrycce

Grammar
hrycce, Dele, and see <b>hwicce.</b>

hwilc-hwéne

Grammar
hwilc-hwéne, Dele, and see <b>hwilc-hwegno.</b>

ofer-mǽned

Grammar
ofer-mǽned, Dele, and see <b>ofer-menged.</b>

on-wlát

Grammar
on-wlát, Dele, and see <b>and-wlata.</b>

pang

Grammar
pang, Dele the query, and see <b>þung.</b>

spillan

Grammar
spillan, Dele last passage, and see spillend: <b>-spilledness.</b>

céne

(adv.)
Grammar
céne, adv. Dele, and for belliter read
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belliger

déman

(v.)
Grammar
déman, to démanne, démenne; part. démende; ic déme, ðú démest,démst, he démeþ, démþ, pl.démaþ ; p. démde, pl. démdon; impert. dém, déme, pl. démaþ, déme ge; pp. démed; v. trans. dat. acc. [dóm judgment, opinion]

DEEM, judge, think, consider, estimate, reckon, determine, examine, prove, doom, condemn ⬩ judicāre, arbitrāri, æstimāre, censēre, recensēre, decernĕre, sancīre, examināre, condemnāre

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To DEEM, judge, think, consider, estimate, reckon, determine, examine, prove, doom, condemn; judicāre, arbitrāri, æstimāre, censēre, recensēre, decernĕre, sancīre, examināre, condemnāre He com déman eorþan venit judicāre terram, Ps. Lamb. 95, 13: Elen

Linked entries: a-déman doeman

á-rétan

Grammar
á-rétan, Dele 'set right' (in last two passages á-rétan = to comfort),
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and add Hé hæfde his wíf mid him þe hine árétte, þeáh hé his bearna þolode, Hml. S. 30, 204. On þǽm sealme hé wæs cleopiende tó Drihtne, wilnode þæt hé hine árétte, Ps. Th. 27, arg. Be eallum þám þe gebrocode wǽron and eft árétte, 28, arg

ceace

(n.)
Grammar
ceace, a trial, &amp;c. Dele, and see ceáp, <b>III a.</b>

drohtnung

Grammar
drohtnung, Dele 'in great renown' l. 10,
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and add Þæt þú fare tó wéstene þǽr ðǽr nánes mannes drohtnung nis ( where nobody lives ), Hml. Th. i. 466, 32. Drohtnunge religionis, i. conversationis, An. Ox. 2567. Se gewuna þisse hálgan drohtnunge ( conversationis ), R. Ben. 5, 18. Angin gódre drohtnunge

gihþig

Grammar
gihþig, Dele, and see <b>gydig.</b>

heáfod-lencten-fæsten

Grammar
heáfod-lencten-fæsten, Dele, and see <b>heáfod;</b>

horian

(v.)
Grammar
horian, Ps. Th. 27, 1 note. Dele, and see <b>hopian; III</b>.

of-brytsig

Grammar
of-brytsig, Dele, and see <b>byrstig.</b>

fætt

(n.)
Grammar
fætt, m. Dele: the MS. has sefa ? geðang. v. Mod. Lang. Rev. xi. 215.

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