Pǽcan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - pǽcan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

pǽcan
p. pǽhte; pp. pǽht To deceive :-- Swylce hié mid sceare and munuces hiwe God pǽcen (pǽcean, MS. T.) as if deceiving God with the tonsure and the appearance of a monk, R. Ben. 9, 15. Hý óðer specaþ, óðer hý þencaþ, and lǽtaþ ðæt tó wærscype, ðæt hý óðre mágan swá swicollíce pǽcan, Wulfst. 55, 3. Pǽcht decepta, seducta, Hpt. Gl. 449, 42.

Related words: á-, be-pǽcan. pæcan

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