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heáh-biscop

  • noun [ masculine ]
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heáh-biscop, es; m.
An archbishop, chief bishop, pontiff
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  • Birhtwald Bretone heáhbiscop

    Birhtwald archbishop of Britain,

      L. Wih. pref.; Th. i. 36, 8.
  • Mid geþeahte Wulfhelmes mínes héhbisceopes

    with the counsel of Wulfhelm my archbishop,

      L. Ath. prm.; Th. i. 194, 13.
  • Se heáhbiscop and se hálga Wilfriþ

    Antistes eximius Vilfrid,

      Bd. 5, 19; S. 636, 41.
  • Heáhbiscop pontifex, 2, 3; S. 504, 44, note. Héhbiscop pontifex, Rtl. 72, 8:

    archiepiscopus,

      194, 27.
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  • heáh-biscop, n.