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cempa

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Wright's OE grammar
§60; §310;
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  • Cempa agonista, An. Ox. 4, 4:

    tyro,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 289, 14.
  • Heánra cempa

    miles ordinarius,

    ii.
      59, 14.
  • Kempa

    miles,

      Coll. M. 31, 37.
  • Sé wæs cáseres cæmpa under Paulino on Rauenna,

      Shrn. 76, 2.
  • Cempan

    agonitheta,

      An. Ox. 1334.
  • Caempan, cempan

    gladiatores,

      Txts. 66, 481.
  • Cempan manipulares, Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 38: 56, 76:

    tirones,

      88, 63.
  • Wǽpenboran, cempan pugiles .i.

    gladiatores,

      An. Ox. 751.
  • Cemp[ena] luctatorum, 4735 (cf., 11, 188). Cempena

    anthletarum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 62.
  • Cempum

    tirunculis,

      An. Ox. 719.
  • Bebeád sum hǽþen ealdormon his cæmpum (cf. hét his þegnas

    jussit milites,

      Bd. Sch. 20, 19) ...
  • Albanus eóde ongeán þǽm cæmpan

      , Shrn. 93, 29-32.
  • Ne forseah Críst his geongan cempan (

    the Innocents

    ),
      Hml. Th. i. 82, 33.
  • Seleucus hæfde ealle þá æðelestan men Alexandres heres ..., and Cassander þá cempan mid Chaldéum

    summa castrorum Seleuco cessit; stipatoribus regis satellitibusque Cassander praeficitur,

      Ors. 3, 11; S. 144, 2.
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Etymology
[v. N. E. D. kemp. O. Frs. campa, cempa: O. L. Ger. kempio: O. H. Ger. chemph(i)o: Icel. kappi.]
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v. andlang-, efen-, in-, rǽde-, weorold-cempa.
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