Cyric-hád

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cyric-hád

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

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

Runic Inscription

ᚳᚣᚱᛁᚳ-ᚻᚪᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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