Costere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Costere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: costnere, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 costere

m. A tempter; tentator :-- Manna cynnes [MS. manna kynnes] costere hafaþ acenned on ðé ða unablinnu ðæs yfelan geþohtes the tempt?? ILLEGIBLE of mankind [lit. of the race of men] hath begotten in thee the unrest of this evil thought, Guthl. 7; Gdwin. 46, 9. Se costere cwæþ to him tentator dixit ei, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. Lind. 4, 3. costere

Runic Inscription

ᚳᚩᛋᛏᛖᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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