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Cyric-hád

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1 cyric-hád

m. [hád II. degree, order] A church-degree, order of the church; ecclesiæ ordo :-- For ðám seofon cyrichádum [-hádan MS.] ðe se mæssepreóst, þurh Godes gife, geþeáh ðæt he hæfde, he biþ þegenrihtes wyrðe for the seven orders of the church, which the mass-priest, through the grace of God, has acquired, he is worthy of thane-right, L. O. 12; Wilk. 64, 41. cyric-had
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ᚳᚣᚱᛁᚳ-ᚻᚪᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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