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costere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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costere, costnere, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§602;
A tempter; tentator
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  • Manna cynnes [MS. manna kynnes] costere hafaþ acenned on ðé ða unablinnu ðæs yfelan geþohtes

    the tempt?? of mankind [lit. of the race of men] hath begotten in thee the unrest of this evil thought

    • Guthl. 7
    • ;
    • Gdwin. 46, 9.
  • Se costere cwæþ to him

    tentator dixit ei

    • Mt. Kmbl. Rush. Lind. 4, 3.
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v.  costnere.
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  • costere, n.