Hand-preóst

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hand-preóst

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hand-preóst
a priest at a person's hand (using the phrase as in ' they were first at the kyngis hond', 1 Chron. xviii. 17 (Wicklif), where the A. V. has 'chief about the king') :-- Þrengde hé his handpreóstas and eác sume of his túnpreóstan ꝥ hí scoldan helpan þan feáwan munecan precepit capellanis clericis suis, ut essent cum monachis, Chr. 870; P. 284, 1. Cf. hand-þegn, -gesella. hand-preost
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