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Dorce-ceaster

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Dorce-ceaster, Dorces ceaster, Dorca-ceaster, Dorceaster; gen. -ceastre ; f. [Bd. Dorcinca, Dorcic: Hunt. Dorecestre: Brom. Dorkecestre: Matt. West. Dorcestre]
DORCHESTER, Oxfordshire, the episcopal seat of the first bishop of the West Saxons, which was subsequently removed to Lincoln; Durocastrum, in agri Oxoniensis parte Berceriensi finitĭma
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  • Hér Cynegils [MS. Kynegils] wæs gefullod fram Byríne ðam biscope on Dorcaceastre

    in this year [A. D. 635] Cynegils was baptized at Dorchester by bishop Birinus,

    • Chr. 635
      • ;
    • Th. 47, 4, col. 1
      • .

  • Hér wæs Cwichelm gefullod onDorceceastre b[Dorces ceastre,

    • Th. 46, 10, col. 1
    ]

    in this year [A. D. 636] Cwichelm was baptized at Dorchester,

    • 636
      • ;
    • Th. 47, 9, col. 1: 639
      • ;
    • Th. 46, 18, col. 2
      • ;
    • 47, 17, col. 1
      • .

  • Æt Dorceceastre [Dorceastre,

    • Th. 175, 28, col. 2
    ]

    at Dorchester,

    • 897
      • ;
    • Th. 174, 31, col. 1,
      • 2;
    • 175, 27, col. 1
      • .

  • Geáfon ðam bisceope begen ða cyningas eardungstówe and biscopsetl on Dorceceastre

    both the kings [Cynegils of the West Saxons and Oswald of the Northumbrians] gave the bishop [Birinus] a dwelling-place and episcopal see at Dorchester,

    • Bd. 3,
      • 7;
    • S. 529,
      • 20.

  • Ætla wæs on Dorceceastre to bisceope gehálgod

    Ætla was consecrated bishop of Dorchester,

    • 4,
      • 23;
    • S. 594,
      • 11.

  • Hér Wulstán arcebiscop onféng eft biscopríces, on Dorceceastre

    in this year [A. D. 954] archbishop Wulfstan again received a bishopric, at Dorchester,

    • Chr. 954
      • ;
    • Th. 215, 26, col. 1
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Dorce-ceaster.” 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/7832.

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