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carc-ern

  • noun [ neuter ]
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carc-ern, carc-ærn, es; n. [care care, or Lat. carcer a prison; ærn, ern a place]
Wright's OE grammar
§66;
A prison, a house of correction; carcer, latomiæ
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  • Alǽd of carcernes clúse míne sáwle

    educ de carcere animam meam,

      Ps. Th. 141, 8.
  • Ðonne þincþ him ðæt he síe on carcerne gebroht

    then it seems to him that he is brought into prison,

      Bt. 37, 1; Fox 186, 15.
  • Ic wæs on cearcerne [MS. Cot. carcærne]

    eram in carcere,

      Past. 44, 7: Hat. MS. 62b, 22.
  • To ðam carcerne

    to the prison,

      Andr. Kmbl. 179; An. 90: Exon. 8a; Th. 2, 27; Cri. 25: Cd. 227; Th. 304, 28; Sat. 637: Cot. 124: 191.
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v.  carc cearc-ern.
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  • carc-ern, n.