Old English Dictionary Entry

Ofer-eáca

Part of speech: an; Related words: 1, 1, Th. i. 228, 16: v. 6, 1, Th. i. 232, 28: v. 6, 3, Th. i. 234, 6. Ðæs geáres ofereácan fæste hé

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1 ofer-eáca

m. I. an over-plus, a surplus, what remains over when apart has been taken :-- Ðone mǽstan dǽl ðæs folces hí ofslógon, and ðone ofereácan áweg gelǽddon, Homl. Th. ii. 66, 4. Ða seofon mynstru hé gegódode, ðone ofereácan his ǽhta hé áspende on Godes þearfum, 1118, 31. Oferécan, Chart. Th. 482, 17. Ofæreácan, 554, 32. Wé niman eall ðæt hé áge, and niman ǽrest ðæt ceápgyld of ðam yrfe, and dǽle man syððan ðone ofereácan on .ii., L. Ath. reliquum anni jejunet, L. Ecg. P. ii. 29; Th. ii. 194, 13. II. an addition, augmentation :-- Oferéce augmentum, Rtl. 85, 33. ofer-eaca

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ᚩᚠᛖᚱ-ᛖᚪᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.: Latin

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Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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