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Old English Dictionary Entry

ǽ-bryce

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1 ǽ-bryce

in Dict.):--Adultery; of a churchman, neglect of celibacy:--Ðá ðe on sinscipe wuniað and heora ǽwe healdað búton ǽwbryce, Hml. A. 21, 178. Ðá ðe ǽwbryce ne wyrceað, 19, 140. Sé ðe ofer his ǽwe hǽmð, hé is forlír ðurh his ǽwbryce, Hml. Th. ii. 208, 17. Nis nánum weófodþéne álýfed ðæt hé wífian móte . . . nú is þeáh ðǽra ealles tó fela ðe ðone ǽwbryce wyrcað, Ll. Th. ii. 334, 17, 22. Scyldað eów wið ǽwbrycas (-brecas, ), Wlfst. 40, 12. Ǽwbricas, 130, 4. æ-bryce
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ǽ-ᛒᚱᚣᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Ll.
Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Wlfst.
Wulfstan
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