Unlyb-wyrhta

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - unlyb-wyrhta

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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unlyb-wyrhta
m. A poison-maker, one who prepares poisons for purposes of witchcraft, a sorcerer :-- Unlybwyrhta veneficus, Wrt. Voc, i. 74, 39. Wyccan and wælcyrian and unlybwyrhtan, Wulfst. 298, 19. Antecrist hæfð mid him drýmen and unlybwyrhtan and wígleras and ða ðe cunnan galder ágalan, 194, 18. Unlibwyrht[en]a wiccecræft maleficorum (venenificorum) necromantia, Hpt. Gl. 501, 62. unlyb-wyrhta
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