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sundor-hálga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sundor-hálga, an; m.
A Pharisee, (but in one passage it seems to mean) a scribe
    Homl. Th. ii. 428, 3: 420, 34: 422, 3.
Twegen men . . . án wæs sunderhálga, and óðer wæs openlíce synful, Bóceras and sunderhálgan, Scint. 203, 3. Ða Fariséiscan and sundorhálgan (scribes) hine tó deáðe fordémdon, H. R. 9, 28. Manega ðæra sunderhálgena (Pharisaeorum), Mt. Kmbl. 3, 7. Ðæra wrítera and sundorhálgena, 5, 20. Sunderhálgena, Homl. Th. ii. 216, 26. Ða wǽron of sundorhálgon, Jn. Skt. 1, 24.
Etymology
[Þa sunderhalȝe and þa bocere, O. E. Homl. i. 245, 3. Cf. O. H. Ger. sundir-lebin pharisaei.]
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v.  hálga.
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