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in-segel

  • noun [ neuter ]
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in-segel, es; n.
A seal, signet
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  • Insegel

    sigillum vel bulla,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 29
    • ;
    • Som. 61, 31
    • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 26, 30
    • .
  • Insegl

    sigillum,

    • Wrt. Voc. 83, 4.
  • Geþenc nú gyf ðínes hláfordes ǽrendgewrit and his insegel tó ðé cymþ hwæðer ðú mǽge cweþan ðæt ðú hys willan ðǽr on gecnáwan ne mǽge

    consider now, if your lord's letter and his seal come to you, whether you can say that you cannot recognise his pleasure in them,

    • Shrn. 176, 10
    • .
  • Insegle

    signaculo,

    • Hpt. Gl. 504, 37
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  • Ðá com Sparhafoc tó him mid ðæs cynges gewrite and insegle,

    • Chr. 1048
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    • Erl. 177, 20
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  • Swá hwæðer swá heó beó fúl swá clǽne binnan ðam insegle

    whether it [the hand] be foul or clean within the seal,

    • L. Æðelst iv. 7
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    • Th. i. 226, 32
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  • Ðá sende se cyning his insegel tó ðam gemóte,

    • Chart. Th. 288, 22
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Etymology
[
Þet inseil þe þe deofel ne mei nefre tobreocan, O. E. Homl. i. 127. 33.
He haueð his merke on me iseilet wið his inseil, Marh 5, 16. Bisett wiþþ seffne inseȝȝless, Orm.
O. Frs. in-sigel, -sigil a seal
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Icel. inn-sigli a seal, a seal-ring; also the wax affixed to a deed
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O. H. Ger. in-sigili sigillum, signaculum, lunula, annulus, moneta
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Ger. in-siegel.
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v. insigle.
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v.  -segel in-sigle.
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