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cyne-hád

  • noun [ masculine ]
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cyne-hád, es; m. [hád form, condition]
A royal personage or condition, dignity, kinghood; regia persona vel dignitas
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  • Ðæt se cynehád [MS. cynehade] ðæs hálgan weres éce gemynd hæfde ut regia viri sancti persona memoriam haberet æternam, Bd. 3, 11; S. 535, 30, note. Ic Ælfréd, gifendum Criste, mid cynehádes mǽrnesse, geweorþaþ hæbbe cúþlíce ongiten

    I Alfred, adorned, by the grace of Christ, with the dignity of a king have well perceived,

    • Greg. Dial. MS. Hat. fol. 1,
    • 1.
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