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and-git

  • noun [ neuter ]
  • participle
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Grammar
and-git, -giet, -gyt, -get, [ond-, on-], es; n. [and, git = get, p. of gitan to get] .
Wright's OE grammar
§10; §569;
the understanding, the intellect; intellectus
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  • Þurh ðæt andgit, man understent ealle ða þing, ðe he gehýrþ oððe gesihþ

    by the understanding, man comprehends [understands] all the things, which he hears or sees,

    • Homl. Th. i. 288, 21
      • .

  • Þurh ðæt andgit, seó sáwul understent

    through the understanding, the soul comprehends [understands ],

    • 288, 28
      • .

  • Ðǽr ðæt gemynd biþ, ðǽr biþ ðæt andgit and se willa

    where the memory is, there is the understanding and the will,

    • 288, 26
      • .

  • Ðæs andgites mǽþ

    the measure of the understanding,

    • Bt. 41, 4; Fox 250, 23
      • .

  • Andgit

    intellectus,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 69; Som. 70, 28
      • :
    • Exon. 28a; Th. 84, 30
      • ;
    • Cri. 1381
      • :
    • Ps. Th. 31, 10
      • .
understanding, knowledge, cognizance; intellectus, cognitio, agnitio
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  • Ic ðé sylle andgit

    intellectum dabo tibi,

    • Ps. Th. 31, 9: 91, 5
      • .

  • Forðan biþ andgit ǽghwǽr sélest

    therefore is understanding everywhere best,

    • Beo. Th. 2122
      • ;
    • B. 1059
      • .

  • Nolde ic hiora andgit ǽnig habban

    non agnoscebam eos,

    • Ps. Th. 100, 4
      • .
sense, meaning, one of the senses; sensus
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  • Hwílum [he sette] andgit of andgite

    sometimes [he put] meaning for meaning,

    • Bt. proœm; Fox viii. 3
      • .

  • Ða fíf andgitu úre líchaman, ðæt is, gesihþ and hlyst, swæcc and stenc and hrepung

    the five senses of our body, that is, sight and hearing, taste and smell and touch,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 550, 10
      • .
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v.  and-get and-giet and-gyt tácn on-git -git.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “and-git.” 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/1701.

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  • and-git, n.; part.

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