Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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bi-gegnes

(n.)
Grammar
bi-gegnes, = bi-gengnes.

Similar entry: be-gengnes

bí-genge

(n.)
Grammar
bí-genge, es; n.

Practice ⬩ worship

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Practice, worship Bígenge cultus, An. Ox. 5153. On ídol wé áspendað bígencge inane expendimus studium, Scint. 2, 1. Þá bígengu (neomenias) þæs níwan mónan wé ná ne healdaþ, An. Ox. 40, 34. Bodiað bígenga (studia) his, Ps. Spl. 9, 11

Linked entries: -genge -genge bí-geng

bi-geonan

Similar entry: be-geonan

bí-libban

Grammar
bí-libban, l. bí libban, v. be; C.: bílyhte.

Similar entry: bílyhte

bí-lihþ

Similar entry: be-leán

bí-nama

(n.)
Grammar
bí-nama, an; m.

A pronoun

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A pronoun Þá naman and þá bínaman, Angl. viii. 331, 5

bí-sæc

(n.)
Grammar
bí-sæc, (bi-sæc ?)
Entry preview:

Bisæc peram, Mt. R. 10, 10

Linked entry: sacc

bí-sǽce

(adj.)

Disputed ⬩ disputable ⬩ contested

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Grammar bí-sǽce, bí-sæc; adj. Substitute: Disputed, disputable, contested Gif ðær hwæt bísæces sý, séme se biscop if there be anything contested, let the bishop arbitrate, Ll. Th. ii. 314, 9. Wé lǽrað ꝥ preóst bísæce ordél ǽfre ne geǽðe, 258, 3. Cf.

bí-genged

Similar entry: heofon-bígenged

bí-swæc

(n.)
Grammar
bí-swæc, bí-swec
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treachery Bygswæc (-swec, v. l., bygspæc, Ps. Spl.) supplantationem, Ps. Rdr. 40, 10

Linked entries: big-spæc byg-spæc

be-gang

exercise ⬩ labour ⬩ business ⬩ cultivation ⬩ religious practice

Entry preview:

Add: n. exercise, labour, business On bigonge mínum in exercilatione mea, Ps. Spl. C. 54, 2. Mið micle bigeong magno studio, Mt. p. 10, 13. Bigongum exercitiis, i. laboribus, studiis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 61: 29, 58. Hé hine onwende from ealre þisse worlde

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