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brice

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
brice, bryce, es; m. [from briceþ, brycþ, pres. of brecan to break]
Wright's OE grammar
§386;
A breaking, rupture, fracture, fragment, violation, breach; fractio, ruptura, fractura, fragmentum, violatio
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  • Híg hine oncneówon on hláfes brice

    cognoverunt earn in fractione panis,

      Lk. Bos. 24, 35.

  • We witon ful georne, ðæt to miclan bryce sceal micel bót nýde

    id compertum est nobis, immanis ubi facta est ruptura, ibi opus esse, ut large resarciatur,

    Lupi
      Serm. i. 3; Hick. Thes. ii. 99, 30.

  • Ne sý bánes bryce

    let there not be a fracture of a bone,

      Exon. 42 b; Th. 143, 32; Gú. 670.

  • Gefég ðás bricas to ánsúndnysse

    join these fragments to soundness,

      Homl. Th. i. 62, 7, 9.

  • Hí gegaderodon ða bricas

    they gathered the fragments,

    i.
      182, 22.

  • Wǽron seofan spyrtan afyllede mid ðám bricum

    seven baskets were filled with the fragments

    , ii.
      396, 9: i. 190, 4.

  • II. Ðæs borges bryce

    a violation or infraction of the pledge or security,

      L. Alf. pol. 3; Th. i. 62, 9, 10, 12.
Etymology
[Plat. bräk, m: Frs. brek, m. f; O. Frs. breke, m. f: Dut. breuk, f: Dan. bræk, brok: Swed, brak, n: Icel. brek, n. a fraudulent purchase of land: like Ger. ge-brechen, n. vitium; bruch, m. a breaking, breach, from Ger. brechen, A. Sax. brecan to break.]
Derived forms
DER. ǽw-brice, -bryce, áþ-, bán-, borh-, burh-, ciric-, cyric-, eodor-, fæsten-, freóls-, ful-, ge-, griþ-, hád-, hús-, lah-, mund-, sám-, wed-.
Linked entries
v.  bryce.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “brice.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/5114.

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