Wīg-cræft

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

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wīg-cræft

m. I. war-craft, military skill :-- Pirrus wæs gemǣrsad ofer eall ōþere cyningas, ǣgder ge mid his miclan fultume, ge mid his rǣdþeahtunge, ge mid his wīgcræfte Pyrrhus in se, ob magni-tudinem virium consiliorumque, summam belli nomenque traduxit, Ors. 4, l; Swt. 154, 27. Hȳ him grimme forguldon done wīgcræft de hȳ æt him geleornodon vincere, dum vincitur, edocuit, I. 2; Swt. 30, 7. Hē hæfde Higelāces hilde gefrunen, wlonces wīgcræft (or II?), Beo. Th. 5898; B. 2953. 1a. a warlike art, a warlike engine :-- Hȳ wurdon gerāde wīgcræfta, Ors. 1. 2 ; Swt. 30, 6. Mid scotum, ge mid stāna torfungum, ge mid eallum heora wīgcræftum vis magna telorum, 3, 9 ; Swt. 134, 16. Wīgcræftum machinis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 33. II. warlike force, military power (abstract or concrete) :-- On Thessali hē dæt gewinn swīþost dyde for dære gewilnunge de hē wolde hi him on fultum geteón for heora wīgcræfte, for don hié cūþon on horsum ealra folca feohtan betst Thessaliam ambitione habendorum equitum Thessalo-rum, quorum robur ut exercitui suo admiscerit, invasit, Ors. 3, 7 ; Swt. 112, 3. Hē (Christ) mihte, gif hē wolde, wīgcræft habban sōna genōhne (cf. Mt. 26, 53), L. Ælfc. P. 51 ; Th. ii. 386, 34. Ðā beþōhtan hié ealle heora wīgcræftas Exantipuse Xanlhippum, cum auxiliis accitum, ducem bello praefecerunt. Ors. 4, 6; Swt. 174, 30. wig-cræft