Snytro

Old English Dictionary Entry

Snytro

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: snyttro, snytero(u); Related words: ge-, un-snytro. snytro

Definitions

1 snytro

indecl. in sing.; pl. is used with the same force as sing.; f. Prudence, wisdom, sagacity:--Snytru sapientia, Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 6, 2. Hwǽr com heora snyttro what has become of their wisdom? Blickl. Homl. 99, 31. Wera snytero, Cd. Th. 295, 25; Sat. 492. Se þurh snytro spéd smiðcræftega wæs, 66, 14; Gen. 1084. Ic eom gewis ðínra mægena and snytro, Lchdm. i. 326, 4. Snyttro, Elen. Kmbl. 586; El. 293. Hié ðære snytro gelýfdon, Cd. Th. 217, 25; Dan. 28. Full mið snyttro (snytrum, Rush.) plenus sapientia, Lk. Skt. Lind. 2, 40, Ealle ðú mid snyteru worhtest omnia in sapientia fecisti, Ps. Th. 103, 23. Wísdóm l snytro sapientiam, Ps. Spl. 18, 8. Ic ðé gelǽrde swelce snytro swylce manegum ieldran gewittum oftogen is, Bt. 8; Fox 24, 28. Snyttro, 7, 3; Fox 20, 11. Þurh his godcundemeht and þurh his écean snyttro, Blickl. Homl. 121, 16. Tó héranne snytro (snyttro, Rush.) Salomones, Mt. Kmbl. 12, 42. Þurh sefan snyttro, Past. pref.; Swt. 9, 10: Exon. Th. 28, 5; Cri. 442. Beoran on breóstum sibbe and snytero, Cd. Th. 277, 19; Sat. 207. Ealle heora snytru beóþ forglendred omnis sapientia eorum devorata est, Ps. Th. 106, 26. Spræc sunu Arones snytra gemyndig, Cd. Th. 148, 28; Gen. 2463. Snyttra, Exon. Th. 304, 30; Fä. 78. Þurh snyttra cræft, Andr. Kmbl. 1261; An. 631. Ðara ðe geóce tó him séceþ mid snytrum, 2307; An. 1155. On snytrum in sapientia, Ps. Th. 89, 14. Mid módes snyttrum, Beo. Th. 3416; B. 1706. Snyttrum wisely, prudently, Andr. Kmbl. 1292; An. 646. Ðeáh ánra gehwylc hæbbe ða .xii. snyttro Habrahames and Isaces and Iacobes, Salm. Kmbl. 150, 2. Þurh ða snyttra (snyttro, MS. O.) ðe ic fram ðam sóþan Gode onféng per sapientiam mihi a Deo vero donatam, Bd. 2, 13; S. 517, 3. Paulus ðæt lof Gode betǽhte ðe him snytera (snytra, MS. F.) and wísdóm sealde, R. Ben. 4, 6. [Goth. snutrei.]

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