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Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-smiten(n)es

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1 be-smiten(n)es

Add :-- Besmitenesse contagione, Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 21: colludio, 22, 25. Besmitenessa contagia, 21, 49. I. physical :-- Besmitenyse squaloris, i. inquinationis, An. Ox. 3482. II. moral :-- ꝥ hire bid besmitennys (pottutio), Ll. Th. ii. 156, 9. Bútan besmiten-nysse sine pollutions peccati, Hml. A. 112, 329. Bútan leahtra be-tmitenesse sine macula, R. Ben. 3, 18. Geclǽnsode fram deófolgilda besmitennysse, Hml. S. 30, 73. be-smitennes
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛋᛗᛁᛏᛖᚾ(ᚾ)ᛖᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Ll.
Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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