Ge-brúcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-brúcan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ge-brúcan

; p. -breác, pl. -brucon; pp. -brocen [ge-, brúcan to use, enjoy] To enjoy, eat; perfrui, edere, manducare :-- Hí ðæs biǽdes gebrocen hæfdon they had enjoyed the success, Exon. 38 b; Th. 127, 29; Gú. 393. Miððý sacerdhád gebréce cum sacerdotio fungeretur, Lk. Skt. Lind. 1, 8. Ðætte hia gebrécon manducarent, Jn. Skt. Lind. 18, 28 : 6, 58. ge-brucan

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛒᚱᚢᚳᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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