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þeówet

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
þeówet, (-ot, -ut), þeówt, [t]es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§358; §604;
Service; in an unfavourable sense, servitude, bondage, slavery
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  • Is óðer ðeówt neádunge búton lufe, óðer is sylfwilles mid lufe, se gedafenaþ Godes ðeówum,

      Homl. Th. ii. 524, 5.
of voluntary service
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  • Githro sǽde ðæt Moyses on dyslícum gesuincum wǽre mid ðæs folces eorðlícan ðeówote

    quod terrenis populorum negotiis stulto labore deserviat,

      Past. 18; Swt. 131, 14.
of forced service
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  • Ǽlc ðeówt biþ geendod on ðisum andweardan lífe, búton ðæra ánra ðe aynuum ðeówiaþ; hí habbaþ écne ðeówt,

      Homl. Th. ii. 326, 30.
  • Sí þreora án for his feore, wergild, éce þeówet, hengenwítnung,

      L. Eth. vii. 16; Th. i. 332, 18.
  • Of þeówetes húse

    de domo servitutis,

      Deut. 6, 12.
  • Þeówettes,

      13, 10.
  • Se synfulla ðeówaþ ðam wyrstan ðeówte

    the sinner is a slave to the worst slavery,

      Homl. Th. ii. 228, 10.
  • Of þeówete út álǽdan

    de servitute eruere,

      Ex. 6, 6.
  • Þeówette,

      Deut. 5, 6.
  • Of þeówte gelǽdan,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 5, 19.
  • Of þeówte álísan,

      2, 11.
  • On þeówote gebringan

    to enslave,

      Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 128, 29.
  • Ðeówte,

      Homl. Th. ii. 190, 90.
  • Tó ðeówte gelǽdan,

      66, 34.
  • Hé wolde ðæt folc habban ongeán tó his lande tó his láðum þeówte,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 5, 26.
  • Bige ús tó ðæs cynges þeówette

    eme nos in servitutem regiam,

      Gen. 47, 19.
  • Tó þeówte bebycggan to sell into slavery, L. Alf. 12; Th. i. 46, 12 MS. H. On þeówete standan

    to remain in bondage.

      L. Ath. v. 12, 2; Th. i. 242, 5.
  • Ðære wylne sunu wunaþ eal his líf on ðeówte,

      Homl. Th. i. 110, 29.
  • Drihtenes áre oððe deófles þeówet,

      Hy. 7, 98.
  • Tódǽlan freót and þeówet

    to distinguish between freedom and slavery,

    i.e. between the free and the bond,
      L. C. S. 69; Th. i. 412, 10.
  • On þeówot gangan,

      L. In. 7; Th. i. 106, 17.
  • On þeówot sellan,

      Ors. 3, 7; Swt. 112, 30.
  • Þeówet,

      L. Ecg. C. 27; Th. ii. 152, 17.
Etymology
[Cf. Swa summ þu þeowwtesst tin eorþlike laferrd swa shall þin sune himm þeowwtenn, butt iff he wurrþe lesedd ut off hiss þeowwdomess bandess, Orm. 43-46.]
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v.  þeówot þeówt.
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  • þeówet, n.