ceaster
/tʃæəster /*
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Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
ceaster
. Dele passage from Chron. under I. and add: I. used as a general term, or applied to foreign towns. [For the use of burh, ceaster respectively cf. the translation of Orosius, in which burh is always used in speaking of Jerusalem, Sodom, Gomorrah and Babylon (and of other towns), with the passages from the poetry in which ceaster is used of the same.] :-- Cester arx, civitas, Hpt. Gl. 530, 2. Hierusalem ys mǽres cyninges ceaster (cester, v. l., cæstra, R., burug, L. c