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Wīglere

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1 wīglere

m. A diviner, soothsayer, augur, sorcerer :-- Wīglere augur, Wrt. Voc. i. 74, 37. Ðes and deós wiglere hic et haec augur, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 22 ; Zup. 49, 2. Nū cwyd sum wīglere, dæt wiccan oft secgaþ swā swā hit āgǣd mid ddum dincge, Homl. Skt. i. 17, 108. On gellcnysse wīgleres and rǣdendes (arioli et coniectoris), Scint. 75, 12. Wȳgleras auspices, Germ. 398, 79. Be wiccum, wīglerum, etc. Gif wiccan odde wīgleras, oþþe morðwyrhtan . . . , L. E. G. II; Th. i. 172, 20: L. C. S. 4 ; Th. i. 378, 7. Wiccan oþþe wígleras, scíncræftigan . . . , L. Eth. vi. 7; Th. i. 316, 20. Wiccan and wīgleras (wīgeleras, ). Wulfst. 27, I. Drȳmen, and wiccan and ōdre wīgeleras beód tō helle bescofene for heora scīncræftum, Homl. Th. ii. 330, 28. Wīgulera magorum, hariolorum, Hpt. Gl. 502, 51. Tunglera l wī[g]lera Chaldaeorum ... wīhlera (?) printed wineena hariolorum, 483, 5-10. Ðonne man tō wiccan and tō wīgleran tilunge sēce æt ǣnigre neóde,Wulfst. 171, II. Hē wiccan fordyde, and wīgleras āfiīgde, and drȳcræft tōwearp, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 464. [Wielare augur. Wrt. Voc. i. 89, 20. þe wielare (the devil) maked a swote smel cumen, ase þauh hit were ofheouene, A. R. 106, 2. M. Du. wijcheler.] and next word. wiglere
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ᚹᛁᚷᛚᛖᚱᛖ

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L.
Latin

Works & Authors

C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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