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a promise
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  • 'Ic eów freoþige . . .' Him þá wæs þæt heofenlice gehát,

      Bl. H. 135, 27.

  • Eal þín gehát þe þú mé gehét,

      143, 28.

  • Ne hopa ðú tó swíðe tó ðám ðe ðé man geháte; ðǽr lyt geháta bið, ðǽr bið lyt lygena (

    where there are few promises, there are few lies

    ),
      Prov. K. 7.

  • Þá leásan men treówa gehátað fægerum wordum . . ., habbað on gehátum hunigsmæccas, Leás. 28. I a.

    what is promised, a promised good :-- Ic sendo gihát (promissum )

    fædres mínes in iówih,
      Lk. R. 24, 49.

  • Hé bád sóðra geháta, hwonne him Freá reste ágeáfe,

      Gen. 1425: Cri. 541: Gú. 913.
a promise to a deity, a vow
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  • Gehát oððe wirgnes

    devotatio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 26, 2: i. 29, 1.

  • Minutia hæfde geháten heora gydenne Dianan þæt heó wolde hiere líf on fǽmnháde álibban . . . Heó hiere gehát áleág,

      Ors. 3, 6; S. 108, 19.

  • Þá geárlican gehát

    annua vota,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 5, 55.

  • Þá ælmessan þe Ælfréd cing gehét . . . hí (

    the English

    ) swýðe béntigðe wǽron æfter þám gehátum,
      Chr. 883; P. 79, 9.

  • Ðú forgeldes Drihtne giháta áðas ðíne (

    vota juramenta tua

    ),
      Mt. L. 5, 33.

  • Gehát,

      Ps. Th. 65, 13.
a promise to do something required, a stipulation
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  • Gehát

    stipulatio,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 55.
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v. feoh-gehát, fore-gehát.
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v.  hát.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hát.” 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/48227.

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