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rǽding

  • noun [ feminine ]
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rǽding, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§615;
reading
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  • Bisceopes dægweorc. Ðæt biþ mid rihte his gebedu ǽrest, and ðonne his bócweorc, rǽding,

      L. I. P. 8; Th. ii. 314, 19.
  • Æmtigaþ eów tó rǽdinge vacate lectioni, hé begǽþ his rǽdinge

    vacuus est lectionibus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 33; Som. 37, 14.
  • Ðæs ðe ic on rǽdinge ne mihte fullíce ásmeágan,

      Wulfst. 65, 22.
  • Beó ðú ábisgad ymbe rǽdinge attende lectioni, Past. 22, 1; Swt. 169,17. I a.

    a reading, a single act of reading

    :-- Ofthrǽdlíce rǽdinga háligra bóca,
      L. E. I. 2; Th. ii. 404, 2.
  • Capitula rǽdinga,

      R. Ben. 43, 2.
what is read, reading, a passage in a book, a lesson
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  • Ðis Englise ǽtýwþ hwæt seó foresette rǽding (

    passage

    ) mǽnþ, Anglia viii.
      298, 9.
  • Seó rǽding cwyþ ðæt ðǽr ys gyt on ǽlcum tácne healftíd,

      298, 31 : 300, 32 : 309, 1.
  • Sý án rǽdincg gerǽd of ðære ealdan cýðnesse

    let one lesson from the Old Testament be read,

      R. Ben. 34, 12.
  • Agustinus ús onwreáh ðissere rǽdinge (

    the lesson for the day

    ) andgit,
      Homl. Th. ii. 384, 21.
  • Swá swá gé gehýrdon on ðissere rǽdinge (

    the homily which precedes

    ),
      Homl. Skt. i. 11, 284.
  • Hé lufode hálige rǽdinge ... ealle his geféran sceolde sealmas leornian oððe sume rǽdinge,

      Swt. A. S. Rdr. 97, 62-65.
  • Gé sculon singan sunnanúhtan ǽfre nigon ræpsas mid nigon rǽdingum,

      L. Ælfc. P. 44; Th. ii. 384, 5.
  • Man þreó rǽdinga rǽde,

      R. Ben. 33. 14.
  • Wé willaþ on ðisre stówe ða seofon rǽdinga (

    passages

    ) áwrítan ðe ymbe ða seofon geár synd gedihte ... Ðás rǽdinga syndon wíde cúðe, Anglia viii.
      314, 18-22.
rule, government (v. rǽdan, IV)
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  • Hæfdon sume mid áþum gefæstnod ðæt hí on hire rǽdinge (rǽdenne, other MSS.) beón woldon,

      Chr. 918; Erl. 105, 30.
  • v. béc-, bóc-, pistol-rǽding.
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v.  bóc-rǽding.
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  • rǽding, n.