Wól-berende

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wól-berende

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 wól-berende

adj. Pestiferous, pestilential, pernicious, (l) physical :-- Æteówde wólberende lyft. Nar. 15, 31. Se wólberenda (pestifer) stenc ðære lyfte monigé ðúsendo monna and neáta fordilgade, Bd. l, 13; S. 482, 8. Ne sceþþeþ ðé wólberendes áwiht, Lchdm. i. 326, 19. Wæs ðæra wyrma oroð swíðe deáðberende and ǽterne (quorum halitus erat pestifer) and for hiora ðæm wólberendan oroðe monigé men swulton, Nar. 14, 17: 16, 2. Hé onsent ofer hig wólberende windas. Ps. Th. 10. 7. (2) figurative :-- On heora wólberendum setle in cathedra pestilentiae, Ps. Th. I. l: Past. 56; Swt. 435, 22. On ðæm wólberendan setle, 435, 19. Forspenð hé hit mid ðære wólberendan óliccunge mentem securitatis pestiferae blanditiis seducit, 53; Swt. 415, 12. wol-berende

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ᚹᚩᛚ-ᛒᛖᚱᛖᚾᛞᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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