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wiþer-sacung

(n.)
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wiþer-sacung, e; f.

blasphemyapostasy

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'Wylt ðú hys wyðersacunge gehýran?' Ðá cwæþ Pílatus: 'Gif seó sprǽc wyþersacung ys ðe spycþ, nymaþ hyne and lǽdaþ hyne tó eówre gesomnunge,' Nicod. 10; Thw. 5, 31. apostasy Wiðersacunge apostasiae, Hpt. Gl. 477, 69: 515, 69

ár-leás

(adj.)
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Add: dishonourable, shameful swealt mid árleáse deáðe, Shrn. 120, 14. wicked Árleás impius, Wrt. Voc. i. 75, 68. Fordón þá rihtwísan mid þám árleásan ( impio ), Gen. 18, 23. Ic and mín folc sind árleáse ( injusti ), Ex. 9, 27. [O. H.

bisceop-lic

episcopalpontifical

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Add: bishop-like, proper to a bishop ne gefremede náht biscoplices, Chr. 1050; P. 170, 20. episcopal, pontifical Biscoplic wurðscipe flamininus honor, Wrt. Voc. i. 59, 54. Biscoplic stól pontificalis cathedra, An. Ox. 2029.

byres

(n.)
Grammar
byres, e; f.
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sceal habban adsan, bil, byrse, scafan, Angl. ix. 263, 1

Linked entries: byris byrs

dún-land

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hine geond ealle eorðan sóhton, ge on dúnlandum gé on wudalandum, Ap. Th. 7, 14. Add

folc-toga

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Add: of a temporal leader (Moses) wæs leóf Gode, leóda aldor, herges wísa, freom folctog. i. Exod. 14. Se folctoga (Nebuchadnezzar), Dan. 656. Þæs folctogan (Holofernes') bed. Jud. 47.

god-sunu

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Hine onféng æt fullwihtes bæþe him tó godsuna Æþewald Eástengla cyning suscepit eum ascendentem de fonte sacro Aediluald rex Orientalium Anglorum, Bd. 3, 22; Sch. 298, 10. Add

hofer

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wearð gehǽled . . . swá ꝥ næs gesýne on his hricge hwǽr se hofor stóde, Hml. S. 21, 95-106. Dele '[?]', and add:

lorh

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sceal fela towtóla habban: flexlínan, spinle, reól, stodlan, lorgas, Angl. ix. 263, 11. In this passage the word seems to belong to the a-stem masculine declension, but in the Epinal-Erfurt glossaries to the i-stem feminine, with i-umlaut of o.

Rómáne

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Þá gesáwon hié Rómáne scipa on ðǽm sǽ irnan, 4, 1; S. 154, 4. Rómáno scipa, S. 3, 23. Rómáno (o altered to e) æfterre gewinn and Punica wearð geendod, 4, 35. Add

sǽ-grund

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Add: the deep Se apostol Paulus sǽde ꝥ sylf wunode on sǽgrunde middan ofer dæg and ofer niht ( nocte et die in profundo mares fui; a night and a day I have been in the deep, 2 Cor. 11, 25), Hml. S. 31, 899

send

(n.)
Grammar
send, e; f.
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A present Ne sí munece álýfed þæt ǽnig gewrit oþþe sende oðþe lác from hyra mágum oþþe from ǽnigum óþrum men underfón nullatenus liceat monacho neque a parentibus suis neque quoquam hominum litteras, eulogias, vel quelibet munuscula accipere, R.

streám

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Efne swilce seó eá on hyre næfde nǽnne wæteres streám ac si ille fluminis alveus aquam minime kaberet, Gr. D. 15, 31. gelóme út on þone striém (streám, v. l. ) eóde, Bd. 5, 12; Sch. 632, 18. v. gyte-, mid-, mylen-streám. Add

tó-lísan

Grammar
tó-lísan, <b>I b.</b>
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Add beóð tólýsede ungeleáffullíce they shall be destroyed in their unbelief, Hex. 48, 19

wín

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untýnde ꝥ wínern (apothecam) and gemétte þá fatu swá genihtsumlíce mid wíne gefyllede . . . efne ꝥ swá þá weaxendan wínu (wín, v.l.) woldon feallan ofer þá fatu on þone flór ( ita ut pavimentum excrescentia vina invaderent), Gr.

wrítan

Grammar
wrítan, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Cristes róde tácen þǽr tóweard wrát signum crucis edidit, Gr. D. 105, 9

wundrian

(v.)
Grammar
wundrian, <b>. I</b> 3.
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Sé þe ongyteð his drohtað, ne scyle wundrian his mægn qui conversational ejus agnoverit, virtutem non debeat mirari, 187, 9. Add

rím-áþ

(n.)
Grammar
rím-áþ, es; m.

An oath taken by a person and by the number of persons he brings with him as compurgators

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An oath taken by a person and by the number of persons he brings with him as compurgators L. Ath. i. 9 ; Th. i. 204, 15. (cf. the expressions in Norse law tylptar-, séttar-eiðr, oaths in which twelve, six persons respectively took part)

wǽg-pundern

(n.)

a steel-yardweighing-machine

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a steel-yard, weighing-machine Ǽlc burhgemet and ǽlc wǽgpundern beo be his (the bishop's) dihte swíðe rihte, L. I. P. 7; Th. ii. 312, 20. sceal habban wǽipundern, Anglia ix. 263, 9. Similar entries Cf. pundern perpendiculum, Hpt.

Linked entry: pundern

æ-gilde

(adj.; adv.)
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æ-gilde, adv. l. ǽ-gilde; adj.,

Unpaid for, applied to a slain man for whom wergild was not paid

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Unpaid for, applied to a slain man for whom wergild was not paid :-- Gyf þrǽl ðæne þegen áfylle, licge ǽgylde (-gilde, v. l. ) ealre his mǽgðe; and gyf se þegen ðæne þrǽl ðe ǽr áhte áfylle, gylde þegengylde, Wlfst. 162, 8. and add

Linked entry: or-gilde