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ǽ-bær

  • adjective
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Substitute: ǽ-bǽre (-bére); adj. Brought to light (of the criminal or the crime where guilt is manifest), notorious, proved
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  • Ǽbǽre (-bére) morð (

    apertum murdrum,

      Lat. Vers.), Ll. Th. i. 410, 5.
  • Ábǽre,

      Wlfst. 274, 24.
  • Se ǽbǽra þeóf (

    fur probatus,

      Lat. Vers.), Ll. Th. i. 390, 27.
  • Ǽbéra (-bǽra),

      268, 22.
  • Ǽbǽre hórcwénan,

      172, 21.
  • Ǽbǽre manslagan,

      324, 11.
  • Ǽbǽre (-bére) manswican,

      Wlfst. 46, 27.
  • Ǽbére apostatan, 165, 28. ¶ Ǽbǽre þeóf

    occurs in a list of privileges granted to a monastery

    :-- On eallan þingan . . . ðe ðǽr mid rihte tó gebyrað, mid fyrdwíte and fyhtwíte and ǽbǽre þeóf and griðbryce and foresteall and hámsócne,
      C. D. iv. 222, 23.
Etymology
[All þeȝȝre æbære unnþannkess, Orm. 7189. Þu ebure (ebare, 2nd MS.) sot, Lay. 2271. Þat eber file, C. M. 813. O. Frs. ábere, áubere.]
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v. á-bǽran. See also ébere morþ
in Dict.
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  • ǽ-bær, adj.