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§72; §259; §298; §335;
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  • [S]ceatta bíbycgong

    rerum distractio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 35.
  • Naaman beád ðám, Godes menn deórwurðe sceattas . . . 'Genim feówer scrúd and twá pund.' Hé ðá gewende ongeán mid þám sceattum, Hml. Th. i. 400, 10-22. I a. add: money on mortgage, or paid in rent :-- Nolde Sigelm hire fæder (

    he had borrowed thirty pounds)

    tó wigge faran mid nánes mannes scette unágifnum,
      Cht. Th. 201, 23.
  • Wið swylcan sceatte swilce hé hit þá findan mihte,

      C. D. B. i. 544, 4.
  • Hí geúðen Ælfwolde ǽnes dænnes wið his lícwyrðan scætte, iii. 490, 12.
  • Ðæne dǽl ðæs landes ðe se arcebisceop for his sceatte him tó lét,

      C. D. iii. 352, 7.
  • Þone sceat þe on þám lande stent

    the mortgage money,

      Cht. Crw. 9, 120.
  • Ne sceall nán Godes þegn for sceattum riht déman, ac healdan þone dóm búton lyðrum sceattum tó rihte,

      Hml. S. 19, 244.
  • Scethas (= scettas)

    curunnas

    (cf. corban,
      Mk. 7, 11), Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 52.
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v. cyric-, fær-, frum-sceatt.
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