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determination, decision, definition. Cf. gerǽdan ; III a
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  • Þú mid þus mycelre tódǽlednesse and gerǽdnesse tósceádest manna gástas and nýtena . . . Salomon gedyde ofer eall gemǽne-líce þás gerǽdnesse mid þysum wordum

    spiritus hominum atque jumentorum tanta distinctione discernis. . . quibus verbis generalem definitionem subinfert,

      Gr. D. 264, 13 — 22.

  • Þone æftran cwide hé spræc of fullom. gesceáde and gerǽdnesse

    hoc ex rationis definitione subjunxit,

      266, 10.
an ordinance, official enactment,
of the secular authority (king and witan). v. ge-rǽdan ; III b.
of a collection of regulations
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  • Ǽðelstánes cyninges gerǽdnes

    (the decrees of the council of Greatanlea), Ll. Th. i. 194, i. Eádmundes cyninges ásetnysse (gerǽdnes, v. l. ),

      244, l.
    Seó gerǽdnys þe míne witan æt Andeferan ge-rǽdðon, 272, 2.

  • Ðis is seó gerǽdnes þe Engla cyng and ǽgðer ge gehádode ge lǽwede witan gecuran and gerǽddan,

      304, 3.

  • Ðis is seó gerǽdnys þe Cnut cyninge mid his witena geþeahte gerǽdde,

      358, 3.

  • Ðis is seó woruldcunde gerǽdnes,

      376, 4.

  • Ðis is seé gerǽdnes þe Angel-cynnes witan and Wealhþeóde rǽdboran betweox Dúnsétan gesetton,

      352, 1.

  • Ðis is seó gerǽdnyss hú mon ðæt hundred haldan sceal,

      258, 2.

  • Sé þe of þissa gerǽdnesse gá,

      214, 3.

  • Ðis is án þára gerǽdnessa þe Engla cyning gedihte mid his witena gcþeahte,

      340, 4.
of a single regulation
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  • Úres hláfordes gerǽdnes and his witena is ꝥ . . . ,

      304, 14, 18, 21 : 306, l. Be witena gerǽdnessan. Ðis sindon þá gerǽdnessa þe Engla rǽdgifan gecuran . . .
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  • Æðelstánes gerǽ[d]nesse,

      198, 14.
of ecclesiastical authority
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  • Gif preóst tó rihte gebúgan nelle, ac ongeán biscopes gerǽdnesse wiðerige,

      Ll. Th. ii. 296, 18.
a legal agreement embodied in a charter
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  • God þá gehealde for bǽm lífum þe unne ꝥ þeós gerǽdnis stondon móte in écnesse,

      C. D. ii. 132, 19.
    þás gerǽdnisse eall se hióréd mid Crístes róde tácne gefæstnodon, 150, 33.

  • God þone gehealde þe þás úre sylena and úre gerǽðnyssa healdan wylle,

      Cht. E. 242, 19.
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v. un-gerǽdness, weorold-gerǽdness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-rǽdnes.” 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/49295.

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