Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Prison: an Anglo-Saxon word occurring in the (Latin) laws ascribed to Henry I.
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Examples
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"Migulgl zol er vern in a henglayhter, by tog zol er hengen, un bay nakht zol er brenen!"
Archive 2006-09-03 Miss Snark 2006
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Me henged bi the þu {m} bes other bi the hefed. ⁊ hengen bryniges on ` her´ fet.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Also this yere were too bargemen hanged in Tempse beyownde seynt Katerines, for scleying of iij Flemynges and a child, beynge in a schip in Tempse of there contre, and weren homward; and there they hengen til the water hadde wasted them be ebbyng and flowyd, so the water bett upon them.
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On his time þe iudeus of Noruuic bohton an xpisten cild be {} foren estren ⁊ pineden hi {m} alle þe ilce pining ð ure drihten was pined. ⁊ on langfridæi hi {m} on rode hengen for ure drihtines luue. ⁊ sythen byrieden hi {m}. wenden ð it sculde ben for {} holen. oc ure dryhtin {110} atywede ð he was hali m {arty} r.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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