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wic-þegen

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wic-þegen, es; m.
A brother in a monastery who performs the duties of an office for a week
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  • Wicþegn

    betica,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 125, 45.
  • Be wicþénum (de septimanariis coquine). Gebróðru gemǽnelíce heom betwyh þénien, and nǽnig sý beládod fram ðære kycenan þénunge . . . Ðære kycenan wicþénas on ðone Sætresdæg ǽgðer ge fata þweán ge wætercláðas wacsan . . . þweán on ðan sylfan dæge ealra gebróðra tét ǽgðer ge ðære wucan wicþénas ge ðære tóweardan . . . Ða wicþénas (cf. ða wucan þegnas

    septimanarii,

      R. Ben. Interl. 66, 6)
    ánre tíde ǽr gemǽnum gereorde gán tó hláfe . . . Æfterfylige ðære tóweardan wucan wicþén, R. Ben. pp. 58-60.
  • Se diácon wucþén

    diaconus hebdomadarus,

    Anglia xiii.
      415, 721.
  • Fram mæssepreóste wucþéne

    a sacerdote ebdomadario,

      395, 435.
  • Gebróðru wucþénas

    fratres epdomadarii,

      391, 375.
  • Þa wucþénas

    epdomadarii ministri,

      415, 714.
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