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Old English Dictionary Entry

Up-rihte

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1 up-rihte

adv. I. uprightly, erectly :-- Mé þúhte ðæt mín sceáf árise and stóde uprihte, Gen. 37, 7. Mann ána gǽþ uprihte, Bt. 41, 6; Fox 254, 30: Homl. Skt. i. 1, 57. Ðá árás se cnapa and uprihte eode, 6, 41. II. right up, exactly overhead, in the zenith :-- Gǽð seó suntte uprihte (upp-, MS. P.) on ðam sumerlícan sunnstede on middæge, Lchdm. iii. 258, 15. up-rihte
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᛈ-ᚱᛁᚻᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
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