Fant-hálgung

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fant-hálgung

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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fant-hálgung
f. Consecration of a font preparatory to baptizing a person :-- Wæter gehálga fonthálgunge hallow water in a font (?), Lch. iii. 24, 17. Þurh þá fonthálgunge gewyrð sóna Godes midwist, and ðurh ðá orðunge þe se sácerd on þæt wæter orðað, þonne hé font hálgað, wyrð deófol þanon áfyrsad, Wlfst. 36, 2.

Related words: next word. fant-halgung

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