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ge-dwild, ge-dwyld.
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in a physical sense, wandering
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  • Ilias ꝥ beóð gewyn, and Odissia beóð gedwyld (cf. the opening of the Odyssey, 'Sing of the man who wandered much . . . and saw the cities of many men'), swá Omérus on þǽre béc recð,

    • Angl. viii. 330, 46.
error, a being astray
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  • Þá mynstermenn noldon for menniscum gedwylde (cf.

    • Bd. 3, 11
    ) þone sanct (Oswald) underfón,

    • Hml. S. 26, 179.

  • Ábródenum gedwilde

    sussurrone (for the meaning given to this word, cf. susurronis desiges,

    • 998
    ) ,

    • Kent. Gl. 996.

  • Gedwytdum

    erratibus, erroribus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 18.
in an ecclesiastical or theological sense, false opinion, heresy; superstition, false religion
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    Ásprang on Godes folce mycel gedwyld . . . on ðám tíman þe ðá bisceopas sceoldan Godes ꝥ hálige folc on rihtne weg gebringan, hí swíðost ǽlces gedweldes tiledon, and ǽlc gedwyld hí upp árǽrdon,

    • Hml. S. 23, 353-364.

  • Gedwyldes

    superstitionis.

    • An. Ox. 4429.

  • Gedwylde

    superstitione.

    • 4021
    .

  • Secgað sume þá Denisce men on heora gedwylde þæt sé Iouis wǽre, þe hý Þór hátað, Mercuries sunu, þe hí Oðon namiað,

    • Wlfst. 107, 9: 106, 22.

  • Sum bisceop gelýfde þám híwere and hine tó him gebæd, and hé wearð for þám gedwylde ádrǽfed of his anwealde,

    • Hml. S. 31, 839.

  • Heó mid Arrianiscum gedwylde dweligende lyfode,

    • 653
    .

  • Nestorius cwæð ꝥ on Críste wǽron twégen hádas, and hí his gedwild ádwǽscton,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 374, 19.

  • Hit getácnað gydwyldu ( hereses ) árísende,

    • Archiv cxx. 50, 23.
deception, a leading astray,
v. ge-dwyldlic
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  • Báál næfde náne gódnesse, ac wæs gramlic deófol mid gedwylde áfunden

    (was found to be a cruel devil able to deceive

    (?)),
    • Hml. S. 18, 48.

  • Antecríst wile ámyrran mid his gedwylde eall þæt se sóða Críst ǽr bodade and gesette tó rihte,

    • Wlfst. 195, 17.

  • Ðonne tweónað fela manna . . . for ðám micclum and mænigfealdum gedwyldum þe hí geseóð and gehýrað, hwæðer hé sý se sóða Godes sunu oððe ná ne sý,

    • 196, 13.
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v. mis-gedwild.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dwild.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/47728.

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