Bisceop-dóm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bisceop-dóm

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: biscop-dóm, biscep-dóm, es; Related words:

Definitions

1 bisceop-dóm

m. I. [bisceop a bishop, dóm judgment] a bishop's doom, excommunication; episcopi judicium, excommunicatio :-- Sýn hí begen ðæs bisceopdómes scyldige let them both be guilty of the bishop's doom [excommunication], Bd. 4, 5; S. 573, note 1. II. the province of a bishop, a bishopric; episcopi provincia, episcopatus :-- He onféng biscopdóm Parisiace hátte he received the bishopric called Paris; accepto episcopatu Parisiacæ civitatis, Bd. 3, 7; S. 530, note 10. Ps. Lamb. 108, 8. Wine heóld ðone biscep-dóm iii geár Wine held the bishopric three years, Chr. 660; Erl. 34, 7. bisceop-dom

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁᛋᚳᛇᛈ-ᛞᚩᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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