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cyrc-weard

  • noun [ masculine ]
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cyrc-weard, cyric-weard,cyrc-werd,es ; m.
A churchwarden, sacristan; ecclesiæ custos, sacri scriniarius
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  • Cyrcweardes þénung

    a churchwarden's duty,

    • Greg. Dial. 1,
    • 5.
  • Æðelstán cyric-weard [MS. -wyrd] féng to ðam abbodríce æt Abban dúne

    Æthelstan, warden ofthe church, succeeded to the abbacy at Abingdon,

    • Chr. 1044
    • ;
    • Th. 300,
    • 26.
  • Cyrcweard

    sacri scriniarius,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 114
    • ;
    • Som. 80,
    • 23;
    • Wrt. Voc. 61,
    • 4.
  • Cyrcwerd

    ædituus,

    • R. Conc. 1.
  • Se bisceop befran ðone cyrcweard hwǽr ðæs hálgan wǽpnu wǽron

    the bishop asked the sacristan where the weapons of the saint were,

    • Homl. Th. i. 452,
    • 2.
  • Ðá wæs án cyrce weard Yware wæs geháten

    there was a sacristan called Yware,

    • Chr. 1070
    • ;
    • Erl. 207,
    • 33.
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