Scír-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scír-mann

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: (scíre-, scíres-), es; Related words: scír,

Definitions

1 scír-mann

m. I. an official, officer, ruler, one who discharges the duties of a scír (I) :-- Scírman procurator, Wrt. Voc. i. 57, 37. Wæs scíremonn (Pontius Pilatus) procurante Pontio Pilato, Lk. Skt. Lind. 3, 1. Scíremon (sgiiremonn, Lind. ) dispensator, Lk. Skt. Rush. 12, 42. Swá sceal gód scýrman (a reeve or bailiff) his hláfordes healdan, dó ymbe his ágen swá swá hé wylle, Anglia ix. 260, 16. Ne ofermódgiaþ ða scírmenn ná for ðý nequaquam praepositi ex hoc superbiunt. Past. 17, 2; Swt. 109, 18. Hwæt elles meahte beón getácnod þurh Eze-chiel búton ða scírmenn per Ezechielem praepositorum persona signatur, 21, 3 ; Swt. 153, 24. II. an inhabitant of a district (II) :-- Gregorius befrán, hú þære scíre nama wǽre, ðe ða cnapan of álǽdde wǽron. Him man sǽde, ðæt ða scírmen wǽron Dere gehátene. Homl. Th. ii. 120, 33. . III. as a technical English term = scír-geréfa. in the next charter he is called scíregeréfa, i

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ᛋᚳᛁᚱ-ᛗᚪᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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