Tó-sceácerian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tó-sceácerian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: sceácere. to-sceacerian

Definitions

1 tó-sceácerian

p. ode To waste, devastate, scatter:--Nú is eall mín heord tósceácerod nunc omnis grex meus vastatus est; they were scattered (Ezek. 34, 5), L. Ecg. P. iii. 16; Th. ii. 202, 28. Ðá wurdon hí ealle ðearle áfyrhte, and heora gesomnunga ealle wurdon sóna tósceácerode then (at the coming of the emperor Decius) they (the Christians) were all very frightened, and their congregations were at once scattered, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 23.

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚩ-ᛋᚳᛖᚪᚳᛖᚱᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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