Old English Dictionary Entry

Wítegung

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

Definitions

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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.]

Similar Words

Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᛏᛖᚷᚢᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

Ger.: German
O. H. Ger.: Old High German

Works & Authors

Mk.: Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Orm.: Ormulum (ME text by Orm)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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