Cyne-dóm

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cyne-dóm

Substitute: I. a royal ordinance or law:--Ꝥte ryhte ǽw and ryhte cynedómas þurh úre folc gefæstnode wǽron, ꝥte nǽnig ealdor-monna . . . wǽre áwendende þás úre dómas, Ll. Th. i. 102, 9. II. supreme authority, especially royal authority, royalty, empire:--Cynidóm, cynedoom respublica, Txts. 92, 859. Cynedóm sceptrum, Wrt. Voc. i. 42, 7. Stande án crístendóm and án cynedóm on þeóde, Ll. Th. ii. 302, 8; Wlfst. 267, 24. Cynedómes potestatis, i. imperii, An. Ox. 3943. Hé wæs mid ungemete girnende þæs cynedómes dominationis hausit cupiditatem, Ors. 4, 5; S. 166, 25. Hé mid gódum weorcum geglengde his kynedóm and his kynedómes geweóld feówertig geára, Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 11: Ps. C. 149. Kynedóme regio, An. Ox. 43, 3. Claudius Orcadas ðá eáland geþeódde tó Rómwara cynedóme (cf. ríce, 15, 7) (Romano imperio), Bd. 1, 3; Sch. 14, 5: Chr. 47; P. 6, 24. Eardwulf féng tó Norþanhymbran cinedóme (ríce, ), 795; P. 57, 18. Wé under ánum cynedóme ǽnne crístendóm healdan willað, Ll. Th. i. 304, 8. Crístendóm and cynedóm healdan and wealdan, 350, 3: Ælfc. T. Grn. 8, 6. Þone cynedóm ciósan to accept the crown, B. 2376. Cynedómas fasces, i. honores, dignitates, Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 51: 35, 11. Cynedómum sceptris, An. Ox. 12, 14. III. noble estate, royal rank or dignity:--Apollonius forlét his þone wurðfullan cynedóm (cf. Apollonius wæs ealdorman on Tiro, 3, 24), and mangeres naman genam, Ap. Th. 10, 7. III a. the fine paid for the offence to the royal dignity where a king is slain:--Norðleóda cynges gild is .xxx. þúsend þrymsa, fífténe þúsend þrymsa bið þæs wergildes, .xv. þúsend þæs cynedómes. Se wer gebirað mágum, and seó cynebót þám leódum, Ll. Th. i. 186, 2-5. For þám cynedóme (for the offence done to the royal dignity) gebirað óðer swilc tó bóte on cynegilde, 190, 7. IV. royal property. v. cyne-lic:--Cynedómes fisci (cf. fiscus kyninga seód, 39, 80), Wrt. Voc. ii. 37, 60. [v. N. E. D. kin-dom.] cyne-dom

Related words: l.