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mǽgþ
/mjθ /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
Gender: Feminine
Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
mǽgþ
, e; f. Importunate desire, ambition :-- Ðæt mód sǽde ðæt him nǽfre seó mǽgþ and seó gítsung forwel ne lícode, Bt. tit. 17; Fox xii, 24. Cf. Ðú wást ðæt mé nǽfre seó gítsung and seó gemǽgþ ðisses eorþlícan anwealdes forwel ne lícode scis ipsa minimum nobis ambitionem mortalium rerum fuisse dominatum, 17; Fox 58, 23. v. máh, ge-mǽhþ (with which ge-mǽgþ in the above passage should be put).
Linked entries (variants, parts of a paradigm or derived forms):
mýgþ
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mǽgþ
. I. add :-- Mǽgþ prosapia, An. Ox. ii. 112. Cóm Críst on ðám tíman þe seó cynelice mǽigð áteórode, Hml. Th. i. 82, 4. Mid cynrene, miégþe prosapia, i. genus progenies, An. Ox. 1297 : stemmati, Germ. 393, 131. Hé férde embe Agathen ǽhta, and eác wolde gehæftan ealle hire mǽgðe, Hml. S. 8, 210. IVa. add :-- Þǽr is mid Estum án mǽgð þæt hí magon cyle gewyrcan, Ors. l, I ; S. 21, 14. IVc. add :-- Þæt mynster is geseted in Huicca maegðe, C. D. i. 114, 14.
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