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leger-stów

  • noun [ feminine ]
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leger-stów, e; f.
A burial-place, cemetery
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  • Hálig leger [legerstów?]

    cimeterium, poliandrium,

      Ælfc. Gl. 49; Som. 65, 74; Wrt. Voc. 34, 9.
  • Cyricean ðe legerstów on sý

    a church at which there is a burial-place,

    • L. Edg. i. 2
    • ;
    • Th. i. 262, 12
    • :
    • L. C. E. 11
    • ;
    • Th. i. 366, 24
    • :
    • 3
    • ;
    • Th. i. 360, 23
    • .
  • Ðæt hí þolian woroldǽhta and gehálgodre legerstówe

    that they forfeit worldly possessions and a consecrated burial-place,

    • L. Edm. E. 1
    • ;
    • Th. i. 244, 14
    • :
    • 4
    • ;
    • Th. i. 246, 6
    • .
  • Ypolitus bebyrigde ðone hálgan líchaman on ðære wudewan legerstówe

    Hippolytus buried the holy body in the burial-place of the widow,

    • Homl. Th. i. 430, 26
    • .
Etymology
[
Laym. leir-stow.
]
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  • leger-stów, n.