Old English Dictionary Entry

Wítnere

Part of speech: es;

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1 wítnere

m. A punisher, tormentor:--Wítnere lictor, Wrt. Voc. ii. 52, 59. Se déma betǽcð ða unrihtwísan ðam unmildheortan wítnere, and se wítnere hí gebrincð on cwearterne, Homl. Ass. 8, 205. Ðonne beóð ða hire (the soul's) wítneras, ða ðe hí tó ðám leahtrum forspeónon, Homl. Th. i. 410, 31. Se hláford sealde hyne ðam wítnerum (tortoribus), Mt. Kmbl. 18, 34. Se heretoga cwæþ: 'Gé beóð gewítnode' . . . Ðá swór se déma, ðæt hí þurh drýcræfte ða stánas áwendon tó heora wítnerum, Homl. Skt. i. 11, 110. [O. L. Ger. wítneri tortor: O. H. Ger. wízinári ultor, tortor, lictor.] witnere

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Runic Inscription

ᚹᛁᛏᚾᛖᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Common Abbreviations

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

Works & Authors

Mt.: Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies

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