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Old English Dictionary Entry

Lah-wita

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m. One who has a knowledge of law, a lawyer :-- Cyningan and bisceopan eorlan and heretogan geréfan and déman lárwitan and lahwitan gedafenaþ mid rihte ðæt hí Godes riht lufian it rightly befits kings and bishops, nobles and generals, sheriffs and judges, those who have learning and those who know law, to love God's justice, L. I. P. 5; Th. ii. 308, 14. lah-wita
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛚᚪᚻ-ᚹᛁᛏᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Latin

Works & Authors

Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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