Dirige

Old English Dictionary Entry

Dirige

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: Ps. 5, 8)

Definitions

1 dirige

The first word of the antiphon (at Matins in the Office of the Dead, used as a name for that service:--Dirige for forþférdum vigilia pro defunctis, Angl. xiii. 433, 975: 444, 1131. [N. E. D. dirge.] dirige

Runic Inscription

ᛞᛁᚱᛁᚷᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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