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  • Geroefa

    commenta-riensis.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 63.

  • Geréfa, i. 18, 43 : 60, 31: curator, 57, 39 : prepositus, 72, 67 : preses, ii. 66, 51: coors (cf. coors þreat (a gloss to Jn. 18, 12 cohors et tribunus; so that perhaps it is tribunus not coors to which gerefa

    belongs),

      21, 28.

  • Geroefan proceres, 118, 32: censores, 103, 57- Gerefan, 14, 17 : exactores, 32, 45:

    funeti,

      39, 43.

  • Geréfena

    comitum,

      22, 2.
rendering Latin titles of non-English officials. v. geréf-mann
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  • Jósep wæs geréfa

    (decurio),

      Lk. 23, 50.

  • Hé wæs ánes geréfan sunu cujusdam curialis (cf. curiales vel

    decuriales

    burhgeréfa,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 42)/auu, Gr. D. 125, 8.

  • Sæge Stephane þám geréfan

    die Stephana optioni (optio

    est qui militaris ducis vices agit, vel qui centurioni adjutor datur),
      Gr. D. 314, 5.

  • Man ofslóh ðæs Cáseres geréfan; sé wæs Labienus geháten (cf.

    Labienus tribunus occisus est,

      Bd. i. 2), Chr. P. 5, 9.

  • Geréfan presides (ad

    presides

    (tó démum,
      W. S. ) ducimini, Mt. ID, 18), Wrt. Voc. ii. 72, 46.

  • Geréfan

    (publicani)

    and synfulle men geneálǽhton ðám
      Hǽlende, Hml. Th. i. 338, 9.

  • Hé heóld in þisse ylcan byrig geréfena stówe and scíre

    in hoc urbe locum Praefectorum servans,

      Gr. 0. 340, 32.
a bailiff, steward.
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  • Be gesceád-wisan geréfan. Gescádwís geréfa sceal . . . (

    the duties of the reeve are then given

    ], Angl. ix. 259, 3. þæs biscopes gerefa. Ll. Th. i. 342, 16: 262, 24.

  • Gíf man biscopes esne tihte, cænne bine an geréfan hand; hine gerefa clensie, oþþe selle tó swuiganne,

      42, 4. þone

  • Frenciscan ceorl þe seó hléfdige heafde hire gesett tó geréfan

      , Chr. 1003; P. 135, 6.

  • Gif gestðcund man fare, þonne mót hé habban his geréfan mid him and his smið,

      Ll. Th. i. 144, 3 : 280, 14.

  • Nys nánum mæssepreóste Slýfed, ne diácone, hi gerefan (praefecti) beón, ne wícneras

    (procuratores),

    ii.
      198, 21.
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  • Damascus wæs Abrahames gerefan

    (procura-toris

    ) sunu,
      Angl. vii. 44, 425.

  • Hé (Abraham ) clipode him tó his yldestan gerefan (serunm seniorem domus suae) þe ealle his þing bewiste, Gen. 24, 2. pa sǽde se wíngeardes hláford hys geréfan (giroefæ, L. , geroefa, R. ,

    procurator!).

      Mt. 20, 8: Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 4.
  • IV. a public or royal official.
English or general
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  • lc,

      Abba, geroefa, C. D. i. 310, 3 : 311, 27.

  • Cuómon . iii. scipu, and se geréfa þǽr tó rád, and hié wolde drífan tó þæs cyninges túne,

      Chr. 787; P. 54, 4.
  • He ne róhte hú swíðe synlíce þá geréfan hit begeáton of earme mannon, ne hú manige unlaga hí dydon, 1086: P. 218, 17.

  • Hí genáman þone arc̃ƀ Ælfeáh and Ælfword þæs cynges geréfan, ion ; P. 141,

      27. (l a)
    where the district in which the reeve's authority is exercised is given :-- Ǽthelnðth se geréfa to Eastorege (cf. ego Cuðredus rex Cantunariorum . . . dabo Aeðelnoðo prefecto meo fidelissimo in provinciae Cantiae, 233, 28), C. D. i. 234, 25.

  • On þýs geáre gefór Ælfréd wæs æt Baðum geréfa. Chr. 906; P. 94,

      21. (l b)
    where the function is given :-- On helle beóþ yfele geréfan þS þe nú on wóh démaþ . . . Be þsém démum Críst sylf wæs spre-cende . . . Se yfela déma onféhþ feó. Bl. H. 61, 25-31.
foreign
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  • Se árleása geréfa (

    he is called

    se ealderman þára sácerda,
      153, l), Bl. H. 151,13 (2 a)
    where the district is given :-- Tarquinius ð'ære burge geréfa, Shrn. 120, 12.

  • Ð'ære ceastre gerefa,

      123, 24,
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v. æf-geréfa, burg-geréfa, feoh-geréfa, folc-geréfa, gafol-geréfa, heáh-geréfa, hired-geréfa, mót-geréfa, port-geréfa, tun-geréfa, trehing-geréfa, under-geréfa, wægn-geréfa, weard-geréfa, weorc-geréfa, wíc-geréfa. See Andrews's Old English Manor. s. v.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-réfa.” 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/49331.

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