Smeágung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Smeágung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: smeáwung, smeáung, sméung, smeáng, e ; Related words: á-, ofer-, riht-, scearp-smeágung, -smeáung. smeagung

Definitions

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.

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛗᛖᚪᚷᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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