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wrítere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wrítere, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§602;
a draughtsman, painter,
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v. wrítan, II
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  • Lóca hú wlitigne monnan ic hæbbe átǽfred, swá unwlitig wrítere swá swá ic eom

    pulchrum depinxi hominem pictor foedus,

    • Past. 65
      • ;
    • Swt. 467, 19.
a writer, scribe, copyist
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  • Wrítere

    scriptor,

    gewrit

    scriptura,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 75, 7:

    antigrafus,

      61, 5.

  • Wrýtere

    librarius, scriba,

      37, 12.

  • Sewrítere (scriptor), gif hé ne dilegaþ ðæt hé ǽr áwrát, ðeáhhé nǽfre má náuht ne wríte, ðæt bið ðeáh undilegod, ðæt hé ǽr wrát,

    • Past. 54
      • ;
    • Swt. 423, 32.

  • Mín tunge ys gelícost ðæs wríteres feþere ðe hraðost wrít,

      Ps. Th. 44, 2.

  • Oft gehwá gesihð fægre stafas áwritene, þonne heraþ hé ðone writere and ða stafas, and nát hwæt hí mǽnaþ.

      Homl. Th. i. 156, 3.

  • Wrítera strican

    notariorum characteres,

      Hpt. Gl. 473, 12.

  • Wríterum

    antiquariis (antiquariis describentibus,

      Aid. 79
    ),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 16
      • :
    • 5, 40.

  • Siððan mín on Englisc Ælfréd kyning áwende worda gehwelc, and mé his wríterum sende súð and nord ; héht him swelcra má brengan bi ðære bisene,

    • Past. pref.
      • ;
    • Swt. 9, 14.

  • Ðe læs ðe wé þurh gýmeleásum wríterum geleahtrode beón,

      Homl. Th. ii. 2, 22.

  • purh gýmeleáse wríteras,

    • i. 8, 12
      • :
    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 24, 32.
a writer, author
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  • Se gyt óþ tó dæg, cwæþ se wrítere, lifigende is,

    • Bd. 5, 18
      • ;
    • S. 636, 11.

  • Tó geáre, ðá Brihtferð wrítere ðis áwrát,

      Anglia viii. 327, 11.

  • Ða wríteras and ða ðe hí ymbe writon,

    • Bt. 18, 3
      • ;
    • Fox 66, l.

  • Gebyrede þurh ða heardsǽlþa ðara wrítera ðæt hí for heora slǽwþe forléton un-writen ðara monna þeáwas and hiora dǽda, ðe foremǽroste wǽron,

      Fox 64, 33.
a scribe in the Biblical sense
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  • Esdras se wrítere áwrát áne bóc,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 10, 37.

  • Rihtwísnyss ðæra wrítera

    (scribarum),

      Mt. Kmbl. 5, 20.

  • Folces wríteras

    scribas populi,

      2, 4. v.
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eald-, ge-, not-, stæf-, stǽr-, tíd-, un-, wyrd-wríte.
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v.  ge-wrítere wrítan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wrítere.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/36664.

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