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traht

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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Grammar
traht, tract, es; m. : e; f.
a text, passage; textus, tractus (tractus ecclesiastici cantus species, Migne)
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  • Æfter fyliaþ traht

    sequitur tractus: 'Eripe me, Domine,'

    • Anglia xiii. 417, 743.

  • Traht

    tractus: 'Laudale Dominum,'

    • 425, 855.

  • Mid trahte godspelles

    cum textu euuangelii,

    • 416, 723.

    Nú bidde ic eów ðæt gé beón geðyldige on eówerum geðance óððæt wé ðone traht oferrædan mágon

    I pray you to be patient in your thoughts until we have read the passage (the passage is then given),

    • Homl. Th. i. 166, 7.

  • Ðæt man rǽde twá rǽdinga mid twám tractum and mid twám collectum,

    • L. Ælfc. C. 36;
    • Th. ii. 358, 19.
a treating of a subject, an exposition, a commentary
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  • Traht

    expositio, i. tractatio,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 84.

  • Ðes traht is langsum eów tó gehýrenne, ac wé willaþ nú úre sprǽce her geendian,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 536, 22
      • :
    • 70, 13
      • :
    • i. 248, 21.

  • Trahte

    commentis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 19, 58
      • :
    • 94, 31.

  • We oferrǽddon ðis godspel . . . ac wé ne hrepodon ðone traht ná swíðor ðonne tó ðæs dæges wurðmynte belamp

    we read the gospel, but we did not further touch the exposition (or text, under I?) than pertained to the honour of the day,

    • Homl. Th. i. 104, 6.

  • Trahtas

    commentariola,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 24, 51.

  • Rǽde man ðære godcundan láre béc, and eác swá ða háligan trahtas (expositions) ðe fram namcúþum fæderum geworhte synt,

    • R. Ben. 33, 20.

  • Trahta

    commenta, documenta.

    • Hpt. Gl. 512, 32.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. trahta tractatio.
From Latin.
]
Similar entries
v. godspell-, sealm-traht, and following words.
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v.  tract.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “traht.” 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/30961.

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