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Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-hycgan

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Definitions

Definitions

1 definitions

1 be-hycgan

to think, consider, bear in mind, trust; meditari, considerare, sollicitum esse de re, confidere, niti :-- He sceal deópe behycgan þroht þeóden-gedál he must deeply bear in mind the dire decease of his lord, Exon. 52 b; Th. 183, 7; Gú. 1323. Ðe on Gode behicgaþ qui in Deo acquiescunt, R. Ben. 31.
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚻᚣᚳᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Exon.
Exeter Book
Gú.
Guthlac (OE poem)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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