Old English Dictionary Entry

For-screncend

Part of speech: es;

Definitions

1 definitions

1 for-screncend

m. [part. of forscrencan] A supplanter; supplantātor :-- Iacob is gecweden, forscrencend Jacob is interpreted, a supplanter, Homl. Th. i. 198, 21. for-screncend

Similar Words

'feallend-lic
-fá
-fandigendlic
-farenness
-feald

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᛋᚳᚱᛖᚾᚳᛖᚾᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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