Feónd-gild

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - feónd-gild

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-gyld.

feónd-gild
Add: (1) idolatry, an idolatrous practice:--Arrianus se gedwolbiscop næfde hús ꝥ hé mihte his feóndgyldes symbelnesse (solemnia sua) inne gedón, Gr. D. 234, 11. Mið fiónd-geldum tormentis, Mt. L. 4, 24. (2) an idol:--Hé tóscynde þæt feóndgyld (deófol-, ) contrivit idolum, Gr. D. 121, 24. Sum ǽren feóndgyld, 123, 24. Ꝥ flǽsc þe hí heora feóndgyldum onsægd hæfdon immolata, 232, 15. Hé him swíþe ondréd þá feóndgyld þe in þám temple wǽron, 189, 2. feond-gild

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