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a thought, what a person thinks, an idea, opinion
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  • Ðá ðe ofer óðre bióð, giémen hié ... ðý lǽs ðæt geðóht hine ofersuíðe,

      Past. 119, 16.

  • For hwý bið se ryhtwísa gecostod mid yfle geðóhte, and ne bið gewemmed, búton for ðý ðe ðǽm ryhtwísan ne deriað his yflan geðóhtas, for ðǽm ðe hé næfd gearone willan ðæt wóh tó fulfremmanne,

      423, 23-28.

  • Swá heánlic geþóht geniman, ꝥ gé sǽdon ꝥ þá hǽðnan tída wǽron beteran þonne þá crístnan,

      Ors. 6, 37; S. 296, 17.

  • Ne bescýt se deófol nǽfre swá yfel geþóht intó þám men,

      Angl. vii. 28, 260.

  • Suá giémeleáslíce oft sceacað úre geðóhtas (

    cogitationes

    ) from ús,
      Past. 139, 20.

  • Hiora geðóhtas beóð áweallene on hiora móde,

      271, 15: Seef. 34.

  • Druncne geþóhtas,

      Dan. 18.

  • Mid hǽtum his geþohta,

      Bd. 2, 12; Sch. 155, 11: Bl. H. 19, 15.

  • Manna geþóhtas nǽnig mon ne wát,

      181, 11.

  • Ic geseah ðá innemestan geðóhtas,

      Past. 155, 7.

  • Hé ongiet his ágne unnytte ðeáwas and geðóhtas,

      259, 14: Dóm. 36: Sat. 206: 488: Crä. 22.

  • Heortan geþóhtas,

      Cri. 1048.

  • God gesyhþ ǽlces monnes geþóht and his word and his dǽda tóscǽt,

      Bt. 40, 7; F. 242, 32.
thought, intention, purpose
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  • Hé gehýrde on Beówulfe fæstrǽdne geþóht,

      B. 610.

  • God gewræc on þǽm árleásan men his árleáse geþóht,

      Ors. 6, 31; S. 286, 14.

  • Geðóhtas heortan his (geþóht his módes, Ps. Th.)

    cogitationes cordis ejus,

      Ps. L. 32, 11.

  • Hí sméþe sprǽce habbað and in gástcofan grimme geþóhtas,

      Leás. 13.
what is thought out, a device, design
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  • Geþóht

    (molimina) mentis,

      An. Ox. 26, 4.

  • Forweorðað ealle þá geþóhtas þe hí þóhtan ǽr

    peribunt omnes cogitationes eorum,

      Ps. Th. 145, 3.
what is determined after thought, a determination, decree
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  • Decretum, i. institutum, positum, consilium, placitum geþóht, statutum laga, diffinitum gesetnes

    judicium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 79.

  • Geðóht

    decreta,

      106, 32.

  • Geþóht,

      25, 39.
counsel, deliberation. Cf. ge-þeaht;
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  • Hé hæfde geþóht mid his witum and freóndum

    facto cum suis consilio,

      Bd. 3, 22; Sch. 292, 13: 4, 1; Sch. 336, 15.

  • Hé áwyrpð smeáunga ł geþohta (

    cogitationes

    ) folca,
      Ps. L. 32, 10.

  • Þá geþóhtas,

      Ps. Th. 32, 9.
counsel, direction, advice. Cf. ge-þeaht;
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  • Hé ús sealde hálwendne geþóht and heofonlice bebodu,

      Bl. H. 11, 35.
thought, the faculty of thinking or
the exercise of that faculty, mind
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  • Hyge Evan, wífes wác geþóht,

      Gen. 649.

  • Is se sylfa geþóht (

    ipsa cogitatio

    ) tó ásmeágeanne,
      Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 95, 16.

  • Háles giðóhtes

    sanae mentis,

      Mk. R. 5, 15.

  • Of alle giðóhte (

    mente

    ) ðínum,
      12, 30.

  • On geþóhte besmiten,

      Sch. 93, 16.

  • Hé hine oðhóf innan his geðóhte eallum óðrum monnum

    cunctis in cogitatione se praetulit,

      Past. 39, 15.

  • On his geþóhte tó módig,

      Bl. H. 109, 27.

  • Eóde se Wísdóm neár mínum hreówsiendan geþóhte,

      Bt. 3, 1; F. 426: Wand. 88.

  • Wé ágyltaþ þurh feówer þing, þurh geþóht and þurh word and þurh weorc and þurh willan,

      Bl. H. 35, 14.

  • Tó ðǽm ðætte ðú mæge ðín geðóht gehealdan

    ut custodias cogitationes,

      Past. 273, 10.

  • Médsceattas áblændað wísra monna geþóht

    munera excaecant prudentes,

      Ll. Th. i. 54, 18.

  • Þám þe hafað wísne geþóht,

      Cri. 922.

  • Sumum hé syleð milde heortan, þeáwfæstne geþóht,

      Crä. 109: Sal. 239: Fä. 44.
mind (with reference to purpose, intention)
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  • Ic ne métte wíf þrístran geþóhtes,

      Jul. 550.

  • Hió wyrpð on ðæt geðóht hwæthugu tó bigietenne

    adipiscenda quaeque cogitationi objicit,

      Past. 71, 22.

  • Hí habbað wísne geþóht fúsne on forðweg,

      Gú. 772.

  • Wé geáscodon Eormanríces wylfenne geþóht,

      Deór. 22.

  • Ðú ús tó gimérsanne eástorlic hálgo girýno gifriólico giðóhtas giwðes

    nobis ad celebrandum paschale sacramentum liberiores animos praestitisti,

      Rtl. 32, 9.
conscience, v. in-geþóht, v. in-geþóht, weorold-geþóht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þóht.” 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/50127.

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