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ge-writ

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
ge-writ, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§344;
Something written, writing, scripture, inscription, a writing, letter, treatise, writ, charter, book
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  • Óþ ðone first ðe hie wel cunnen Englisc gewrit arǽdan

    until such time as they can read English writing well,

    • Past. pref. Swt. 7, 13, 17
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  • Ne rǽdde gé ðis gewrit

    nec scripturam hanc legistis,

    • Mk. Bos. 12, 10
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  • Ðæt gewrit swá be him cwæþ

    the Scripture thus spake about him,

    • Blickl. Homl. 167, 15
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    • 123, 6
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  • Mid ðon worde ðæs godcundan gewrites

    with the word of divine Scripture,

    • 33, 20
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  • Ðæs hálgan gewrites

    of holy writ,

    • Homl. Th. i. 82, 13
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  • Ðis gewrit

    inscribtio,

    • Mk. Bos. 12, 16
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  • Ðá héht he rǽdan ðæt gewrit

    then he ordered to read the letter,

    • Blickl. Homl. 177, 4, 35
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  • Awrítaþ eówre naman on gewrite ðonne asænde ic ða gewrita mínre dóhtor ... se cyngc nam ða gewrita and geinseglode hí

    write your names in a letter, then I will send the letters to my daughter ... The king took the letters and sealed them,

    • Th. Ap. 20, 6-10
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    • Chr. 627
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    • Erl. 25, 11
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  • Se pápa seonde his gewrite to Engla lande

    the pope sent his bull to England,

    • 615
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    • Erl. 37, 15
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  • Mid ðæs cynges gewrite

    with the king's writ,

    • 1048
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    • Erl. 177. 19
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  • Án oxe ne án cú ne án swín ðæt næs gesæt on his gewrite and ealle ða gewrita wǽron gebroht to him syððan

    there was not an ox nor a cow nor a swine that was not put in his book [Doomsday Book], and all the writings were brought to him afterwards,

    • 1085
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    • Erl. 218, 37
    • :
    • Homl. Th. i. 30, 2
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  • Ðis gewrit

    this treatise,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 56, 1
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  • Ðeáh ðe gewrita oft nemnan ealle ða land Media

    though books often call all those lands Media,

    • Ors. 1, 1
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    • Bos. 16, 30
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  • Ðæs gewritu secgaþ

    as books say,

    • Exon. 60 a
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    • Th. 220, 1
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    • Ph. 313
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    • Chr. 973
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    • Erl. 124, 22
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    • Edg. 14
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    • 109 b
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    • Th. 420, 9
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    • Rä. 40, 1
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  • Swá wítgan us on gewritum cýðaþ

    as sages tell us in books,

    56 a;
    • Th. 199, 24
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    • Ph. 30
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    • Elen. Kmbl. 1651
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    • El. 827
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  • We rǽdaþ on hálgum gewritum

    we read in holy writings,

    • Homl.Th. ii. 356, 19
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  • On gewritum

    in scripturis,

    • Ps. Th. 86, 5
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  • Us gewritu secgaþ

    the Scriptures tell us,

    • Cd. 55
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    • Th. 68, 23
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    • Gen. 1121
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    • 79
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    • Th. 98, 15
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    • Gen. 1630
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    • 119
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    • Th. 154, 30
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    • Gen. 2563
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    • Elen. Kmbl. 1345
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    • El. 674
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  • Ða hálgan gewreotu

    the holy Scriptures,

    • Blickl. Homl. 15, 8
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    • 17, 21
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  • On gewritu settan

    to record in books,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 1305, 1313
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    • El. 654, 658
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  • Tuegen hleáperas Ælfréd cyning sende mid gewritum

    king Alfred sent two couriers with letters,

    • Chr. 889
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    • Erl. 86, 24
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  • Úre bisceopas to me gewreoto sende

    our bishops sent me letters,

    • Blickl. Homl. 187, 4
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  • Ic hæfde ǽr on óðre wísan awriten ymbe mín yrfe and hæfde monegum mannum ða gewritu óðfæst

    I had previously written in another way about my inheritance and had entrusted the writings to many men,

    • Chart. Th. 490, 29
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    • 541, 22
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Derived forms
ǽrend-, erfe-, firn-, hand-, mæg-, ofer-, riht-, yrfe-gewrit
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v.  ge-wreot writ.
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