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Old English Dictionary Entry

Munuc-cild

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1 munuc-cild

n. A boy that is being brought up to be a monk :-- Sum munuccild drohtnode on his mynstre, and hæfde micele lufe tó his fæder and tó his méder. Swíðor for ðære sibbe ðonne for Godes dǽle wearþ ðá oflangod, and arn of mynstre tó his mágum, Homl. Th. ii. 174, 33. An munuccild wunode on Mauricius mynstre... hæfde ðæt munuccild swíðe mǽrlíce stemne, Wulfst. 152, 7-11 : 22. munuc-cild
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ᛗᚢᚾᚢᚳ-ᚳᛁᛚᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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