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praesignaculum

praesignaculum [CL praesignare + -culum] , thing that indicates beforehand or prefigures, foretoken. b sign made before baptism, rite of anointing before baptism. quoddam presagii celestis oraculum et eterne beatitudinis ‥ ~um R. Cold. Godr. 160 p. 170.  b finito ymno rogat se infans catecuminum ab Widerno sacerdote fieri et ab Edwaldo teneri ad ~um fidei et Rumwoldum vocari. perfecto ‥ ~o aiunt parentes ‥ V. Rumwoldi 3–4 (= NLA II 346).

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