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ge-crístnian

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Substitute: To administer the rite of crístnung to a person. See the passage given under crístnian; II. [The passages given under crístnian; I and IV (l. III) should be taken under II. In
  • Bd. 5, 6;
  • Sch. 581, 1-19
the rite is evidently referred to, as it says: Hé (the bishop) on mínne andwlitan bleów; and it was the ritual that (in
  • Sch. 580, 19
) it is said the dull priest could not master. The rite was introductory, and preceded, sometimes by years, that of baptism. The person who had undergone the rite became a Catechumen], and add
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  • Se bisceop hí gecrístnode, and tǽhte hí þá gerýna þæs hálgan geleáfan, and gefullode hí,

    • Hml. S. 30, 93: 31, 1036.
    (v. crístnian)

  • Fleáh hé tó Godes ciricean, and bæd ꝥ hine mon gecrístnode, ꝥ biꝥ seó onginnes and se ǽresta dǽl þǽre hálgan fulwihte,

    • Bl. N. 2, 4.

  • Ðeáh hé þá gyt nǽre fullíce gefulwad, ah hé wæs gecrístnod ... hweðre hé þæt gerýne þǽre fulwihte mid gódum dǽdum heóld,

    • Bl. H. 213, 15.

  • Martinus nú iu gecrístnod ǽr his fulwihte hé mid þysse hrægle mé gegyrede

    Martinus adhuc catechumenus hac me ueste contexit,

    • Bl. N. 3, 14.

  • Þá þá hé wæs týn wintra, þá wearð hé gecrístnod (cf. þá þá hé wæs eahtatýnewintre, hé wearð gefullod, 90),

    • Hml. S. 31, 23.

  • Arn hé tó cyrcan fulluhtes biddende; and hé wearð þá gecrístnod (cf. gefullod ðá ðá hé on ylde eahtatýne geára wæs,

    • 502, 1),
    • Hml. Th. ii. 498, 30.

  • Cóm án gecrístnod man ... ac hé wearð seóc swá ꝥ hé forðférde un-gefullod,

    • Hml. S. 31, 207.

  • Gecrístnad

    catacizatus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 56: 18, 54.

  • Gecrísnod,

    • An. Ox. 4084.

  • Gecrístnodes

    catacumini,

    2207.

  • Gecrístnode

    catacuminos,

    2881.
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v.  crístnian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-crístnian.” 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/47523.

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