Ealdor-bisceop

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ealdor-bisceop

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ealdor-bisceop

Add: a chief priest, high priest of the Jews :-- Cwæð se ealdorbiscop dixit princeps sacerdotum (Acts, 7, 1), Hml. Th. i. 46, 6: ii. 422, 20. Ðá gýtsigendan ealdorbiscopas, i. 406, 5. Þám weardmannum þe wǽron ásænde fram þám ealdorbisceopum tó Crístes byrgenne, Hml. A. 78, 153. Hé gesamnode ealle þá ealdorbiscopas congregans omnes principes sacerdotum (Mt. 2, 4), Hml. Th. i. 78, 10. ealdor-bisceop

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ᛠᛚᛞᚩᚱ-ᛒᛁᛋᚳᛇᛈ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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