Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

ge-sceád

  • noun [ neuter ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
ge-sceád, -scád, es; n.
separation, distinction, difference
Show examples
  • Ðæt gesceád

    separatio,

    • Lk. Skt. Lind, 12, 51
    • .
  • Gesceád

    distinctio,

    • Mt. Kmbl. p. 3, 3
    • :
    • Mk. Skt, Rush. 4, 12
    • .
  • Eálá mid hú micle gesceáde God todǽlde betwih leóht and ðýstru

    O quam grandi distantia divisit deus inter lucem et tenebras,

    • Bd. 5, 14
    • ;
    • S. 634, 37
    • .
  • He sceal geþencan ðæt gedál and ðæt gesceád

    he must consider the distinction and the difference,

    • L. de Cf. 1
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 260, 13
    • .
  • Gescád,

    • Exon. 94 a
    • ;
    • Th. 353, 16
    • ;
    • Reim. 13
    • .
power of distinguishing, reason, discretion, discrimination, an account, a reckoning, argument
Show examples
  • Gé habbaþ gesceád ǽgðer ge gódes ge yfeles

    ye can distinguish between good and evil,

    • Homl. Th. i. 176, 24
    • .
  • Fordý sealde God mannum gesceád

    therefore has God given reason to men,

    • 96, 13: 7
    • :
    • Bt. Met. Fox 20, 436
    • ;
    • Met. 20, 218
    • :
    • 22, 88
    • ;
    • Met. 22, 44
    • .
  • On gesceád witan

    to understand,

    • Exon. 83 b
    • ;
    • Th. 314, 3
    • ;
    • Mód. 8
    • .
  • Gesceád witan, cunnan [with gen; cf. the same phrase in O. Sax. wissun thingo giskéd; and the Ger. bescheid wissen]

    to be able to distinguish between things, to understand them,

    • Homl. Th. 186, 4
    • :
    • Beo. Th. 582
    • ;
    • B. 288
    • .
  • Gesceád

    discretio,

    • Bd. 1, 27
    • ;
    • S. 496, 35
    • .
  • Gesceád agyldan

    to render an account,

    • Mt. Bos. 12, 36
    • :
    • Homl. Th. i. 96, 20
    • :
    • ii. 50, 1
    • .
  • Ðæt he mid gesceáde hine betealde unsynninne

    that he proved himself sinless with reasoning,

    • 226, 11
    • :
    • Chr. 1070
    • ;
    • Erl. 208, 17
    • .
  • For hwylcum gesceáde

    propter quam rationem, quapropter,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 44
    • ;
    • Som. 46, 16
    • .
  • Myd gewyssum gesceáde

    propter certam rationem,

    • Nicod. 3
    • ;
    • Thw. 2, 6
    • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. gi-skéd
:
O. H. Ger. ga-skeit distinctio, discretio, distantia
.]
Linked entries
v.  -sceád ge-scád.
Full form

Word-wheel

  • ge-sceád, n.