Ciric-weard

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ciric-weard

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ciric-weard
Take here passages under cyrc-, cyric-weard, and add:--Ðæs cyricweardes tácen is þæt mon sette his twégen fingras on his twá eágan and dó mid his handa swylce hé wille áne hangigende bellan teón, Tech. ii. 118, 16. In þǽre cyricean hé breác and þeówode cyricweardes þénunge in ecclesia mansionarii functus officio deserviebat, Gr. D. 44, 1. Sǽde se cnapa þám cyrcwerde, Hml. S. 21, 163. Áxode hé þone cyrcweard, 3, 258. Niman þá cyricwerdas (es, MS.) þá róde sumant editui crucem, Angl. xiii. 426, 870. Hé ábæd him ingang fram þám cyricweardum þæt him wǽre ágifen leáf him tó gebidenne ingressus ecclesiam a custodibus pettit, ut sibi licentiam concederetur orandi, Gr. D. 200, 3. [O. H. Ger. chirih-wart ecclesiae provisor: Icel. kirkju-vörðr.] ciric-weard
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