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  • Gemánan

    consortio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 31 :

    commertio,

      24, 6.

  • Tó þǽm gemánan

    ad copulam,

      17.

  • On þǽm gemánum

    in consortio,

      44, 78.
a sharing, partaking in common
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  • Him se pápa Petrus tó naman sceóp, þæt hé þám aldre þára apostola his naman gemánan

    (nominis ipsius consortio)

    geðeóded wǽre,
      Bd. 5, 7 ; Sch. 584, 16.
what is held in common, common property
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  • Ðiós eorðe eallum monnum is tó gemánan geseald . . . Sé ðonne unryht-líce talað, sé þe talað ðæt hé sié unscyldig, gif hé ðá gód, þe ús God tó gemánan sealde, him synderlíce ágnað cunctis hominibus terra communis est . . .

    Incassum ergo se innocentes putant, qui commune Dei munus sibi privatum vindicant,

      Past. 334, 9-13.

  • Wit uncerne dǽl oðfæstan uncrum mǽge, on þá gerǽdene ðe hé hit eft gedyde unc gewylde . . . ; and hé swá dyde, ge ðæt yrfe, ge ðæt hé mid uncre gemánan begeat, and ðæt hé sylf gestrýnde,

      C. D. ii. 113, 2-8.
  • Ðæs ðe hé on uncrum gemánan gebruce, 13.
  • Ic ann ðæs landæs Alfwerdæ . . . and Ælfwaræ him tó gemánan, iii. 360, 30.

  • Eallum mínum hirgdwífmannum tó gemánum,

      295, 4.
fellowship, association, society, intercourse
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  • Hí áwo tó ealdre engla gemánan brúcað,

      Cri. 1646.

  • Wé biddað ðæt wit móten bión on ðém gemánon ðe ðaer Godes ðiówas siondan,

      C. D. i. 292, 28.

  • Hé náh æfter forðsíðe crístenra manna gemánan he cannot be buried with Christians, Ll. Th. i. 372,

      34.
  • III a. of spiritual fellowship :-- Fram gemánan wiþersacedan a (Christi) consortio apostatauerant, An.
      Ox. 4491.
  • III b. of marriage, sexual intercourse :-- Sinscipes gemána[n ?] iugalitatis consortia (acc.) i.

    contubernia.

      An. Ox. 3912.

  • Þ lust uífes gemána

    uolunt[at]em nubere,

      Jn. p. I. 3.

  • Tó werlicum gemánan ad maritale consortium, i. matrimonium, An. Ox. 4076: 1549 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 69 (printed geman). Tó samwiste gemánan

    ad copulae consortium,

      An. Ox. 3379.

  • Hǽmedscipes gemánan

    hymenei commercio,

    3220.

  • Wæs hió ungederod fram þæs hǽðenan gemánan (cf. 218-220),

      Hml. S. 30, 314.
  • Heó náhte þurh hǽmedþing weres gemánan. Wlfst. 15, 16.

  • Þurh hǽmedþing wífes gemánan,

      Ll. Th. i. 306, 19.

  • Ne ceorl hæfis wífes gemána, ne wíf hæfis ceorles on érist,

      Mk. Rbe. 12, 25.

  • Gemánan

    contubernia (nuptiarum),

      An. Ox. 1784.
a fellowship, society, company of persons,
community
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  • Gemána

    societas, contubernia,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 18.

  • Gemánan gedál

    communi dividendo actio,

      133, l. Sý hé
    áworpen of gehádodra gemánan, Ll. Th. i. 346, 10 : 362, 31 : ii. 296, 19.

  • Tó gemánum (tó geférrǽdenum) horena

    ad contubernia meretricum.

      An. Ox. 3330.

  • Gemánan fleónde

    contubernia, i. consortia (mortalium) subterfugiens,

    3702.
fellowship, communion in a theological sense
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  • Wé gelýfað þæt háligra gemána sý: hálige men habbað gemánan hér on lífe on gódum dǽdum, and hý habbað gemánan on þǽm tóweardan þurh ðá eðleán þe heom þonne God gyfð,

      Wlfst. 24, 12-16.

  • Ciriclicæs gemánan þolian,

      Ll. Th. i. 38, 3.

  • Of ciricean gemánan áscáden,

      36, 19.

  • God hine áwende of ealra crístenra gemánan,

      C. D. vi. 149, 30.
partaking of the Eucharist, communion; the Eucharist
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  • Ne gewiton þá nunnan of þǽre cyrican betwyh þám þe bescyrede wǽron þæs god-cundan gemánan, for þon þe hí onféngon þone gemánan fram Drihtne þurh þone Drihtnes þeówan

    dum inter eos qui communione privati sunt, minime recederent, communionem a Domino per servum Domini recepis-sent,

      Gr. D. 153, 13-16.

  • Þám se Godes wer sealde mid ágenre hand þone gemánan (húsl,

    v.l.

    ) úres Drihtnes líchaman, ꝥ is ꝥ húsl,
      155, 3.
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v. bed-gemána, cifes-gemána, ciric-gemána, hǽmed-gemána, rest-gemána, wíf-gemána.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-mána.” 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/48825.

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