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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ciric-hálgung

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1 ciric-hálgung

f. Dedication of a church:--Hé ꝥ mynster lét halgian . . . and seó circhálgung (cyric-, ) wæs on Cildamæsse-dæig, Chr. 1065; P. 192, 22, Níwe circhálgung encenia (cf. encenie, nove dedicationis, ii. 74, 16), Wrt. Voc. i. 16, 52: An. Ox. 56, 286. Tó cirichálgunge þæs gebedhúses ad dedicationem oratorii, Gr. D. 72, 1, 5, 16. Ðá lác þe Salomon geofrode Gode æt þǽre ealdan cyric-hálgunge, Wlfst. 280, 21: 281, 7. in Dict. ciric-halgung
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚳᛁᚱᛁᚳ-ᚻᚪᛚᚷᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

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Works & Authors

An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wlfst.
Wulfstan
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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