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cyst

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Wright's OE grammar
§112; §390; §563;
dele last two passages.
substitute for 'with gen. pl. . . .
æstimatio,' an excellent, precious thing; with gen. the best of anything, best of its class (cf. colloquial the pick of),
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  • Gif wé þám dǽdlican þás cyste (cf. ungerím feós, 231) geúðan,

      Hml. S. 3, 281.
  • Ne hí for áwyht eorþan cyste (the pick of earth) þá sélestan geseón woldon

    pro nihilo habuerunt terram desiderabilem,

      Ps. Th. 105, 20.
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  • Hit ne beóð náne cysta ne nán cræft

    non virtutis est donum,

      Past. 347, 16.
  • Þǽm ðe worð bið in láre and in ðǽwum and in clǽnnise and in cystum,

      Mt. L. 10, 8 note.
  • Beóð gesomnad on þá swíðran hond þá clǽnan folc Críste gecorene bi cystum

    (by their virtues),

      Cri. 1224.
liberality, bounty, munificence
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  • God ásend his rénscúras ofer ðá rihtwísan menn and ofer ðá manfullan for his mycclan cyste

    (cf. God that giveth to all men liberally,

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      Jam. 1, 5, Hml. S. 11, 334.
  • Cyste

    munificentiam,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 57: 56, 61.
  • Ðá uncystgan cysta man lǽre

    tenacibus infundatur tribuendi largitas,

      Past. 453, 27.
  • Hé weorðeð eádig, sé þe hine God cystum geceóseþ,

      Ps. Th. 64, 4.
Grammar
cyst, = (?) stæf-cyst :
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  • Stæfcræftes, cyste (cyste, stæfcræftas,

    Hpt. Gl. 477, 49)

    litteraturae,

      An. Ox. 3031.
a troop.
v. cist
in Dict. v. stæf-, unriht-cyst.
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