Wítegung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wítegung

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: fore-wítegung. witegung

Definitions

1 wítegung

f. I. prophecy :-- Án ðæra gecýdde Cristes tócyme mid sealmsange, and óðer mid wítegunge. Sind sealmsang and wítegung, swylce hí syflinge wǽron . . . tó ðám fíf ǽlícum bócum, Homl. Th. i. 188, 19. Ðá wæs gefylled Hieremias wítegung, ðe ðus wítegode, 80, 18. Esaias wítegung (wítgiung prophetia, Lind.), Mt. Kmbl. 13, 14. Wítgiung, p. 16, 15. In stefne wítgeonges in uoce prophetiae, Mk. Skt. p. 1, 8. Swá swá Isaias se wítega hit on béc sette on his wítegunge, Ælfc. T. Grn. 2, 22. II. divination :-- Þurh eorþan wítegung geomantia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 42, 23. Þurh deáþes wítgung nicromantia, 62, 30. [He ȝifð summe witegunge, O. E. Homl. i. 97, 19. All þatt witeȝhunnge þatt hallȝhe witess writenn, Orm. 15149. O. H. Ger. wízagunga divinatio, vaticinium, auspicium.]

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ᚹᛁᛏᛖᚷᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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