Be-swíc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-swíc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: big-swíc, bí-swíc, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 be-swíc

m. [be, big, bí intensive; swíc deceit, swícan to deceive] Deceit, a deceiving, treachery, snare; fraus, deceptio, dolus = δόλos, decipula :-- Bútan bræde and beswíce [bigswíce, bíswíce, Th. i. 160, 7, note 6] absque frgmento et fraude, L. Ed. 1; Wilk. 48, 38. Bíswícum deceptionibus, Mone B. 1174. Philippus ealle ða cyningas mid bíswíce ofslóh Philip slew all the kings by treachery, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 60, 13. To bíswíce his nýhstan in dolo proximo suo, Ps. Th. 23, 4. Beswíc decipula, Cot. 61. Ða woruldwélan synt gesceapene to bíswíce monnum worldly riches are created for a snare to men, Bt. 14, 1; Fox 42, 3. be-swic

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᛋᚹᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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