Stefnan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Stefnan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: ge-stefnan; stefn;

Definitions

1 stefnan

p. de. I. to regulate, direct, fix, institute :-- Hé stefnde Godes cyrican and Godes gesomnunga on ðære byrig eahta and twentig geára he had the direction of God's church and God's congregations in that town eight-and-twenty years, Shrn. 108, 6. Ongann timbrian ða stówe ðæs mynstres ðe hé from ðam cyninge onféng and mid regollícum ðeódscipum stæfnde curavit locum monasterii, quem a rege acceperat, construere ac regularibus instituere disciplinis, Bd. 3, 19; S. 547, 21 note. II. to alternate :-- Staefnendra alternantium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 74. Stefnendra, 6, 49. m. a turn. stefnan

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛏᛖᚠᚾᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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