ceace
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
This might be just an editorial note deleting an entry in the Main Volume.
Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
ceace
a trial, &c.
Dele, and see ceáp,
III a.
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118 of the Supplement of the paper dictionary.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "ceace." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 118.
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ceace
a trial, proof; explpratio, tentamentum, experientia, N. Som. Ben. Lye.
CEÁCE
, an; f. The jaw, CHEEK ; maxilla, mala, mandibula, gena :-- Ðæt tácen ðære bærnesse he on his ceácan bær signum incendii in maxilla portavit, Bd. 3, 19; S. 549, 16. He gehrán his ceácan contigit maxillam ejus, 3, 19; S. 549, 1. Ceácan malæ; , maxillæ, Wrt. Voc. 282, 58, 59. On hælftre and bridle ceácan heora gewríþ in camo et freno maxillas eorum constringe, Ps. Lamb. 31, 9. Ceácan mandibulæ, Wrt. Voc. 64, 46. Ceác-bán vel ceácan vel cin-bán mandibula, Ælfc. Gl. 71; Som. 70, 81; Wrt. Voc. 43, 14.
