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ban-cóða

  • noun [ feminine ]
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ban-cóða, an; m: -cóþ, -cóðu, e; f: -cóðe, an; f. [ban, bana a killer, cóða a disease]
A baneful disease, a fatal or deadly malady, erysipelas; lethalis morbus, ignis sacer
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  • Wæs him inbogen bittor bancóða

    a bitter malady was fixed in him,

    • Exon. 47b; Th. 163, 23
    • ;
    • Gú. 998
    • .
  • Wið bancóðe, ðæt is óman, nim eolonan

    for the baneful disease, that is erysipelas, take elecampane,

    • L.M. 1, 39; Lchdm. ii. 102, 16
    • .
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  • ban-cóða, n.