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Old English Dictionary Entry

Smeágung

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1 smeágung

f. I. search, inquiry, investigation where something is lost :-- On swylcere smeágunge (the search for stolen cattle), L. Edg. S. 12; Th. i. 276, 21. Habban ðás ylcan smeágunge on minum cucum orfe and on mínra þegena, 13 ; Th. i. 276, 24: 14; Th. i. 276, 32. II. inquiry carried on by the mind, inquiry, consideration, meditation, discussion, deliberation :-- Smeágung studium. Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 27. Sió smeáung and sió gesceádwísnes ratiocinatio, Bt. 39, 8 ; Fox 224, 4. Smeáung (Ps. Surt. smeáng) meditatio, Ps. Spl. 118, 24, 97, 99. Smeágunge scrutinio, 63, 6. On smeáwunge and on leornunge háligra gewrita meditationi scripiurarum, Bd. 4, 3; S. 567, 29. Smeáunge, 1, 1; S. 474, 5: Past. ii; Swt. 67, 5. Smeánge, Ps. Surt. 38, 4. Hí hæfdon On ðam gemóte micle smeáunge and geþeaht hwæt him tó dónne wǽre illi tractatum magnum in concilio quid esset agendum habere coeperunt, Bd. 3. 5 ; S. 527, 26. Ðá geseah se árleása áídlian his smeágunge then the impious king saw all his deliberation was of no avail, Homl. Skt. i. 4, 399. Smeáunga yfle cogitationes malae, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 15, 19. Smeáwunga, 9, 4. Smeáwungas (smeóunge, Rush. ), Lk. Skt. Lind. 11, 17. Smeáungas (sméunges, Rush.), 2, 35.
Similar Words

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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛗᛖᚪᚷᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

L.
Latin

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Lk.
Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
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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