Sib-fæc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sib-fæc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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sib-fæc
n. A degree of relationship:-- Æfre ne geweorðe, ðæt cristen man gewífige in .vi. manna sibfæce on his ágenum cynne, ðæt is þinnan ðam feórþan cneówe, L. Eth. vi. 12; Th. i. 318, 14: L. C. E. 7; Th. i. 364, 22. Cf. Christiani ex propinquitate sui sanguinis usque ad septimum gradum connubia non ducunt, Th. i. 257, note b, and ii. 19, note 1.

Related words: Grmm. R. A. 468. sib-fæc

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