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Sinscipe

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1 sinscipe

m. Marriage, wedlock :--Sinscipe conjungium vel matrimonium, Wrt. Voc. i. 72, 11. Senscipe consortium, matrimonium, Hpt. Gl. 469, 44 : jugalitas, 416, 25 : 417, 5. Ðrý hádas . . . mæigðhád, wudewan hád, and riht sinscype, Homl. Th. i. 148, 7. Sinscipe, 604, 30. Mé nú ne lyst nánes synscipes ac ðæs Hǽlendes geþeódnysse mid gehealdenre clénnisse, Homl. Skt. i. 4, 37. Heó wunode twelf geár on ðæs cynincges synscype, 20, 16. Hú miht ðú ðam Ælmihtigan his brýde beniman and ðínum sinscipe geþeódan, Homl. Th. ii. 476, 33. Ða ðe on sinscipe wuniaþ married people, i. 448, 2. Ða ðe beóþ mid sinscipe (syn-, Hatt. MS.) gebundene conjugati, Past. 23 ; Swt. 176, 21. Gif hwá on swilcum mánfullum sinscipe (conjugio) þurhwunaþ, L. M. I. P. 20 ; Th. ii. 270, 20. Tó senscipum ad commercia, connubia, Hpt. Gl. 490, 54. Gesamnaþ sinscipas, clǽnelíce lufe conjugii sacrum castis nectit amoribus, Met. 11, 91. and preceding word. sinscipe
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛁᚾᛋᚳᛁᛈᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Met.
Metres of Boethius (OE poem)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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