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ge-mæcca

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Grammar
ge-mæcca, <b>ge-mecca</b>
Wright's OE grammar
§55; §574;
Take here in Dict. , and add:
an equal, a like, fellow
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  • Fædor gimacca (but see ge-maca; I.I)

    Patris compar,

      Rtl. 164, 3.
  • Þonne hí gegadriaþ þá gelícan tó heora gemæccum in þám gelícum tintregum, and þá oferhýdigan mid þám oferhígdum . . . cum pares paribus in tormentis similibus sociant, ut superbi cum superbis . . . ,

      Gr. D. 316, 4.
a match, one suited to another, v. ge-mæc
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  • Gyrnde hé him his gemæccan tó nymanne

    adoptata sibi coaetanea virgine,

      Guth. Gr. 104, 7.
a married (or betrothed) person.
of a man or woman
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  • Gemæcga

    conjunx,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 50, 8.
of a woman
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  • His fæder wæs on hǽítenscipe wunigende, and his gemæcca samod,

      Hml. Th. ii. 498, 26 : Hml. S. 3, 470.
  • Ic eom Arcestrate þín gemæcca,

      Ap. Th. 25, 8.
  • Ic bæd his dohtor mé tó gemæccan, be þáre ic mæg secgan ꝥ heó his ágen gemæcca wǽre,

      9, 3-5.
  • For hwan nelt þú

    (Joachim)

    hám gehweorfan tó þínum gemæccan ?,
      Hml. A. 122, 165.
  • Nelle þú ondrǽdan Marian þíne gemæccan

    (conjugem)

    tó onfónne,
      Mt. i. 20.
  • God him swylce gemæccean forgeaf,

      Chr. 1067; P. 201, 33.
  • Þ ic móte þíne þeówene míne gemeccan geseón,

      Hml. S. 30, 237.
  • Hí him tó nimað mægeð tó gemæccum mínra feónda, Gen. 1259. III a. in pl. man and wife :-- Gemæccan

    conjuges,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 52, 33.
  • Tú beóð gemæccan,

      Gn. Ex. 23.
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v. efen-gemæcca, riht-gemæcca.
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