Heáh-biscop

Old English Dictionary Entry

Heáh-biscop

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 heáh-biscop

m. An archbishop, chief bishop, pontiff :-- Birhtwald Bretone heáhbiscop Birhtwald archbishop of Britain, L. Wih. pref.; Th. i. 36, 8. Mid geþeahte Wulfhelmes mínes héhbisceopes with the counsel of Wulfhelm my archbishop, L. Ath. prm.; Th. i. 194, 13. Se heáhbiscop and se hálga Wilfriþ Antistes eximius Vilfrid, Bd. 5, 19; S. 636, 41. Heáhbiscop pontifex, 2, 3; S. 504, 44, note. Héhbiscop pontifex, Rtl. 72, 8: archiepiscopus, 194, 27. heah-biscop

Runic Inscription

ᚻᛖᚪᚻ-ᛒᛁᛋᚳᚩᛈ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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