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ceáp-sceamul

(n.)
Grammar
ceáp-sceamul, -sceamel, es; m. [scamel = a bench, seat]

A toll-booth, custom-house, treasury mercatorium scabellum, telonium = HEBREW , gazophylacium = τελώνιον

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A toll-booth, custom-house, treasury; mercatorium scabellum, telonium = HEBREW gazophylacium = τελώνιον He geseah Leui, æt ceápsceamule sittende vidit Levi, sedentem ad telonium, Lk. Bos. 5, 27.

Linked entry: cép-sceamol

cúða

(n.)
Grammar
cúða, an; m. [cúþ known, pp. of cunnan; -a , termination, q. v.]

One known, an acquaintance, a familiar friend, a relation notus, cognātus

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Spl. 54, 14: Lk. Bos. 2, 44. Ne clypa ðú ðíne frýnd ne ðíne cúdan noli vocare amicos tuos neque cognātos, 14, 12: 1. 58

Linked entry: cýþling

níd-wracu

(n.)
Grammar
níd-wracu, e; f.

Violencemisery caused by violence

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Violence, misery caused by violence Wæs ðæt gewin láð and longsum, ðe on ða leóde becom, nýdwracu níþgrim, nihtbealwa mǽst, Beo. Th. 388; B. 193. Hyne God wolde nergan wið níþum, and hyra nýdwræce deópe déman, Exon. Th. 135, 17; Gú. 525

ge-wídmǽrsian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-wídmǽrsian, p. ode; pp. od

To publishspread abroaddivulgecelebratedivulgare

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To publish, spread abroad, divulge, celebrate; divulgare Ofer ealle Iudéa munt-laud wǽron ðás word gewídmǽrsode super omnia montana Iudææ divulgabantur omnia verba hæc, Lk. Bos. 1, 65: Mt. Bos. 28, 15.

ge-wyrþan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-wyrþan, he -wyrþeþ, -wyrþ

To bebecomehappenfiĕri

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Lk. Bos. 1, 34

ge-brot

(n.)
Grammar
ge-brot, es; n. [ge-, brot a fragment]

A fragmentfragmentum

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Man nam ða gebrotu ðe ðár belifon, twelf cýpan fulle sublātum est quod superfuit illis, fragmentōrum cophĭi duodĕcim, Lk. Bos. 9, 17

Linked entry: ge-brotu

un-getogen

(adj.)
Grammar
un-getogen, adj.

Uneducated

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Uneducated Fisceras and ungetogene menn geceás Drihten him tó leorningcnihtum, and hí swá geteáh, ðæt heóra lár oferstáh ealne woruldwísdóm, Homl. Th. i. 576, 28.

birgness

(n.)
Grammar
birgness, e; f.

Tastingtaste

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Mid byrinesse (byrig-, beorh-, v. ll.) ðæs wæteres aquae gustum, Bd. 5, 18; Sch. 649, 16

ciric-hád

(n.)
Grammar
ciric-hád, es; m.
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Ecclesiastical order, holy order Sind on ánum háde se biscop and se mæssepreóst, ꝥ is on ðám seofoðan ciricháde, Ll. Th. ii. 378, 14. For þám seofon cirichádan (cyriclicum ande*-*byrdnyssum, v. l. ) þe se mæssepreóst geþeáh ꝥ hé hæfde, i. 182, 15

Linked entry: hád

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Ealdre cú meolc, Ll. Th. i. 438, 18. Æt ánes heówe[s] cý, Lch. iii. 24, 13. Hé ðá cealfas tó cúum lǽdde, Shrn. 61, 19. Betwih cýe inter vaccas, Ps. Srt, 67, 31. Add

druncen

Grammar
druncen, drunkenness.
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Add: Mið druuncen (druncennisse, R.) ebrietate, Lk. L. 21, 34. Ne e]cen, Mód. 12. [Þat folc þurh heore drunken moni þusend swulten, Laym. 6070. Þa þe luueden hordom and drunken, O. E. Hml. i. 175, 253. Goth. druggkanei: O. H. Ger. trunchení.]

eten-lǽs

(n.)
Grammar
eten-lǽs, (w)e; f.
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The common pasture land Þæt landstycce sceal beón nýhst etenlǽse (vicina compascuis, Latin version; cf. compascuus ager gemǽne lǽs, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 54), Ll. Th. i. 440, 15. Ofer wudu ofer feld ofer ecen lǽse (etenlǽse ?), C. D. v. 262, 18

Linked entry: lǽs

for-drincan

Grammar
for-drincan, (fore-).
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Wiþ þon þe mon hine fordrince, Lch. ii. 152, 4: 16, 17. Ǽlces cynnes drinc þe man mæg foredruncen beón omnis generis potus quo quis inebriari possit, Ll. Th. ii. 134, 21 note. For fordruncenes kyninges wordum, Mart. H. 156, 19. Add

for-oft

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Þá unrihtwísan déman beóð wyrsan þonne heregende here: here man mæg foroft befleón, ac þá déman man ne mæg befleón, Ll. Lbmn. 475, 23. Add

Linked entry: oft

hád-breca

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Substitute: One who commits hád-bryce (q. v. ), who injures a person in holy orders Hádbrecan (the old Latin versions render this by 'sacrorum ordinum contemptores', 'ordinum uiolatores', 'ordinis in-fractores'), Ll. Th. i. 380, 2.

hilde

(n.)
Grammar
hilde, an; f.

A slopedeclivity

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A slope, declivity Helde, burhsteall clivium (cliuium, ascensus singularis uiae, Ld. Gl. H. s.v. glebum) i. discensum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 72. On Owunes hyldan ufewyrde, C. D. v. 293, 25.

Linked entries: holde helde

manigfeald-ness

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L. 30, 20. Þeáh hé mid þǽre mænigfealdnysse þǽre synne bysgunge ábysgod sig licet multiplicitate negotii peccati suspensus sit, Ll. Th. ii. 176, 8. Wé nó þurh ðá mænigfealdnesse úra gebeda sind gehýrede non inn Add: —

Samaritanisc

(adj.)
Grammar
Samaritanisc, adj.

Samaritan, of Samaria

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Samaritan, of Samaria Ðá férde sum Samaritanisc man wið hine, Lk. Skt. 10, 33. Ðes wæs Samaritanisc, 17, 16: Jn. Skt. 8, 48. Ðá cwæþ ðæt Samaritanisce wíf. . . . 'Ic eom Samaritanisc wíf; ne brúcaþ Judéas and Samaritanisce metes ætgædere,' Jn.

Linked entry: Samaringas

úta-cund

(adj.)
Grammar
úta-cund, (úta = útan or úte; v.innan-, inne-cund); adj.

Foreign, alien, strange

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Foreign, alien, strange Útacund cynn alienigena, Lk. Skt. p. 9, 8. Ðes útacunda, Lind. 17, 18. On útacund in alieno, 16, 12. Útacund ... ðara útacundra alienumalienorum, Jn. Skt. Lind. 10, 5. From útacundum ab alienis, Mt, Kmbl.

æften

(n.)

evening

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L. 24, 29. (?)